Relates to the issuance of appearance tickets for certain violations of the agriculture and markets law when the person is charged with a crime for which the court may order the posting of a security.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5715
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the issuance
of appearance tickets for certain violations of the agriculture and
markets law
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraphs (x) and (xi) of paragraph (b) of subdivision
2 1 of section 150.20 of the criminal procedure law, as added by section 1
3 of subpart B of part UU of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, are amended
4 and a new subparagraph (xii) is added to read as follows:
5 (x) the person is eighteen years of age or older and charged with a
6 hate crime as defined in section 485.05 of the penal law; [or]
7 (xi) the offense is a qualifying offense pursuant to paragraph (t) of
8 subdivision four of section 510.10 of this chapter, or pursuant to para-
9 graph (t) of subdivision four of section 530.40 of this chapter[.]; or
10 (xii) the person is charged with a crime for which the court may order
11 the posting of a security pursuant to subdivision six of section three
12 hundred seventy-three of the agriculture and markets 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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