STATE OF NEW YORK
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5761
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 12, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to sentencing
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 70.08 of the penal law, as amended
2 by section 7 of chapter 107 of the laws of 2006, is amended by adding a
3 new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
4 (d) For a class E felony the minimum period must be at least three
5 years and must not exceed twenty-five years.
6 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 70.08 of the penal law, as amended by
7 section 8 of chapter 107 of the laws of 2006, is amended by adding a new
8 paragraph (d) to read as follows:
9 (d) For a class E felony the minimum period must be at least three
10 years and must not exceed twenty-five years.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however that
12 this act shall apply to offenses committed on or after such effective
13 date; and provided further that the amendments to subdivision 3 of
14 section 70.08 of the penal law made by section one of this act shall be
15 subject to the expiration and reversion of such subdivision pursuant to
16 subdivision d of section 74 of chapter 3 of the laws of 1995, as
17 amended, when upon such date the provisions of section two of this act
18 shall take effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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