STATE OF NEW YORK
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1390
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 9, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to consecutive sentencing for
certain convictions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 70.25 of the penal law, as amended
2 by chapter 56 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
3 2. When more than one sentence of imprisonment is imposed on a person
4 for two or more offenses committed through a single act or omission, or
5 through an act or omission which in itself constituted one of the
6 offenses and also was a material element of the other, the sentences,
7 except if one or more of such sentences is for a violation of section
8 270.20 of this chapter, must run concurrently. Consecutive sentencing
9 may be applied when a defendant is found guilty of two or more felony
10 counts, including but not limited to previous felony convictions of
11 article one hundred thirty of this chapter or section 230.34 of this
12 chapter, except consecutive sentencing shall be applied when a defendant
13 is found guilty, or has been previously convicted, of two or more counts
14 of article two hundred sixty-three of this chapter or section 130.75,
15 130.80, 130.95, or 130.96 of this chapter.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
17 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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