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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         3514--A
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 27, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GIANARIS, DelMONTE, GALEF, ESPAILLAT, POWELL,
          KOON --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.  HOOPER,  JOHN,  PHEFFER,
          N. RIVERA  --  read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary --
          reported  and  referred  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 the delivery
          of stenographic transcripts to family members of victims of homicides
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  The  criminal  procedure  law  is amended by adding a new
     2  section 380.75 to read as follows:
     3  § 380.75 Stenographic transcript.
     4    Upon formal request of a member of the  family  of  the  victim,  made
     5  within  one  hundred  eighty  days after the date of the conviction of a
     6  defendant of a homicide offense defined in article one  hundred  twenty-
     7  five  of  the  penal law, the court shall notify the court stenographer,
     8  who shall make available, pursuant to the rules of the chief administra-

     9  tor of the courts for the delivery of transcripts for appeals, a  certi-
    10  fied copy, produced using available technology such as a photocopier, of
    11  the  transcript  of the stenographic minutes of the trial which resulted
    12  in such conviction or, if there was no trial, of  the  proceeding  which
    13  resulted  in  such conviction.  The court stenographer shall deliver the
    14  copy of such transcript to the family member or his or her attorney, and
    15  file with the court clerk an affidavit of the  fact  and  date  of  such
    16  delivery. The expense of the copy of such transcript provided to a fami-
    17  ly  member  shall be a county charge or, in the counties within the city
    18  of New York, a city charge, as the case may be,  payable  to  the  court

    19  stenographer  out  of  the  court fund upon certificate of the judge who
    20  presided at such trial or proceedings.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05527-02-9