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NY S06324
Bill
Status
3/10/2025
Primary Sponsor
Jessica Scarcella-Spanton
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AI Summary
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Defines "extraordinary circumstances" for keeping adolescent offenders in youth court rather than transferring to family court as requiring highly unusual and heinous facts or multiple criminal events, plus strong proof the defendant would not benefit from family court transfer
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Establishes specific factors courts must consider for extraordinary circumstances: crimes committed over multiple days in close proximity, especially cruel and heinous conduct, or leading/threatening/coercing other reluctant adolescents into participating in crimes
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Defines "significant physical injury" as injury involving risk of death, protracted substantial pain, protracted obvious disfigurement, or protracted loss/impairment of bodily function, organ, or mental/sensory faculty
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Amends Criminal Procedure Law Section 722.23 governing removal of adolescent offender cases to family court
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Takes effect on the first of November following enactment
Legislative Description
Relates to the court's consideration of the existence of extraordinary circumstances and significant physical injury in determining whether to remove adolescent offenders to family court; defines such terms; provides factors for the court's consideration of whether extraordinary circumstances exist.
Last Action
REFERRED TO CODES
1/7/2026