STATE OF NEW YORK
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7693--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 9, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. SKARTADOS, BARRETT, LALOR -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to consecutive sentences for
homicide offenses
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 will be applied when a defendant is found guilty of two or more counts
10 of violation of section 125.12 (vehicular manslaughter in the second
11 degree) or of two or more counts of violation of subdivision one of
12 section 125.15 (manslaughter in the second degree).
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
14 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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