STATE OF NEW YORK
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6526
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 5, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to changing the
timing of certain discovery requirements to sixty days prior to trial
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1
2 of section 245.10 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by section 1
3 of part HHH of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, are amended to read as
4 follows:
5 (i) When a defendant is in custody during the pendency of the criminal
6 case, the prosecution shall perform its initial discovery obligations
7 [within twenty calendar days after the defendant's arraignment on an
8 indictment, superior court information, prosecutor's information, infor-
9 mation, simplified information, misdemeanor complaint or felony
10 complaint] no later than sixty days before the first scheduled trial
11 date.
12 (ii) When the defendant is not in custody during the pendency of the
13 criminal case, the prosecution shall perform its initial discovery obli-
14 gations [within thirty-five calendar days after the defendant's arraign-
15 ment on an indictment, superior court information, prosecutor's informa-
16 tion, information, simplified information, misdemeanor complaint or
17 felony complaint] no later than sixty days before the first scheduled
18 trial date.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10225-01-5
