Provides that in jurisdictions having a population of 60,000 or less, the time frame for a speedy trial shall be ninety days of the commencement of a criminal action wherein the defendant is accused of one or more offenses, at least one of which is a violation and none of which is a crime, instead of thirty days.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9828
IN ASSEMBLY
February 19, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to speedy trials
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 1 of section 30.30 of
2 the criminal procedure law, paragraph (d) as amended and paragraph (e)
3 as added by section 1 of part KKK of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, are
4 amended to read as follows:
5 (d) thirty days of the commencement of a criminal action wherein the
6 defendant is accused of one or more offenses, at least one of which is a
7 violation and none of which is a crime. However, in those such juris-
8 dictions having a population of sixty thousand or less, such time frame
9 shall be ninety days of the commencement of a criminal action wherein
10 the defendant is accused of one or more offenses, at least one of which
11 is a violation and none of which is a crime.
12 [(e) for the purposes of this subdivision, the term offense shall
13 include vehicle and traffic law infractions.]
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14739-01-0
