Requires the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services in consultation with the director of the office of victim services to prepare and distribute the notification form for victims of violent felony offenses allowing them to demand to be informed regarding a name change petition by the defendant.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1744--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to preparation
and distribution of the notification form for victims of violent felo-
ny offenses regarding a name change petition by the defendant
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 380.50 of the criminal procedure
2 law, as amended by chapter 320 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 6. Regardless of whether the victim requests to make a statement with
5 regard to the defendant's sentence, where the defendant is sentenced for
6 a violent felony offense as defined in section 70.02 of the penal law or
7 a felony defined in article one hundred twenty-five of such law or any
8 of the following provisions of such law sections 130.25, 130.30, 130.40,
9 130.45, 255.25, 255.26, 255.27, article two hundred sixty-three, 135.10,
10 135.25, 230.05, 230.06, subdivision two of section 230.30 or 230.32, the
11 prosecutor shall, within sixty days of the imposition of sentence,
12 provide the victim with a form, prepared and distributed by the commis-
13 sioner of the division of criminal justice services, in consultation
14 with the director of the office of victim services, on which the victim
15 may indicate a demand to be informed of any petition to change the name
16 of such defendant. Such forms shall be maintained by such prosecutor.
17 Upon receipt of a notice of a petition to change the name of any such
18 defendant, pursuant to subdivision two of section sixty-two of the civil
19 rights law, the prosecutor shall promptly notify the victim at the most
20 current address or telephone number provided by such victim in the most
21 reasonable and expedient possible manner of the time and place such
22 petition will be presented to the court.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
24 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03093-05-5
