Relates to requiring the imposition of a consecutive sentence for convictions of crimes committed while an offender is in the custody of a correctional facility or local correctional facility.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5647
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO, DeSTEFANO, McDONOUGH, PALUMBO, CROUCH,
B. MILLER, RA, HAWLEY, MONTESANO, REILLY, LAWRENCE, MORINELLO, SAYEGH
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to consecutive sentences for
certain offenders; and to repeal certain provisions of the penal law,
relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 70.25 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. When a person is convicted of a crime committed while in the custo-
4 dy of a correctional facility or local correctional facility, any
5 sentence of imprisonment imposed for such conviction shall run consec-
6 utively to any undischarged term of imprisonment to which the defendant
7 was subject and for which he or she was confined at the time of the
8 conviction.
9 § 2. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 5 of section 70.25 of the
10 penal law, paragraph (b) as added by chapter 372 of the laws of 1981,
11 are REPEALED.
12 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
13 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.
LBD06872-01-9
