Establishes that no person who has previously provided a DNA sample shall be required to pay a DNA databank fee for their conviction for a subsequent designated offense unless such sample has been expunged.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6004
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 4, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 establishing certain
persons shall not be required to pay a DNA databank fee for the
conviction of a subsequent designated offense
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (v) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of
2 section 60.35 of the penal law, as amended by section 1 of part E of
3 chapter 56 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
4 (v) a person convicted of a designated offense as defined by subdivi-
5 sion seven of section nine hundred ninety-five of the executive law
6 shall, in addition to a mandatory surcharge and crime victim assistance
7 fee, pay a DNA databank fee of fifty dollars, provided however that no
8 person who has previously provided a DNA sample pursuant to section nine
9 hundred ninety-five-c of the executive law shall be required to pay a
10 DNA databank fee for the conviction of a subsequent designated offense
11 unless such sample has been expunged pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdi-
12 vision nine of section nine hundred ninety-five-c of the executive law.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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