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NY S06326
Bill
Status
3/10/2025
Primary Sponsor
Jessica Scarcella-Spanton
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AI Summary
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Grants youth part judges access to all family court records, including juvenile delinquency proceedings, with relevant records provided to parties before arraignment
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Expands definition of "extraordinary circumstances" that can prevent transfer of adolescent offender cases from youth part to family court to include offenses involving use, possession, or display of firearms, shotguns, rifles, or other deadly weapons
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Allows courts to find extraordinary circumstances based on prior convictions or adjudications (youthful offender, juvenile offender, or juvenile delinquent) involving illegal weapon use, possession, or display
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Broadens criteria for keeping cases in youth part by changing weapon-related standard from requiring weapon be displayed "in furtherance of such offense" to simply being used, possessed, or displayed
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Takes effect immediately upon passage
Legislative Description
Relates to proceedings involving adolescent offenders and the possession or use of weapons; provides for the access of applicable records; expands the meaning of extraordinary circumstances to include when the defendant is accused of an offense involving the use, possession, or display of a firearm, shotgun, rifle or other deadly weapon.
Last Action
REFERRED TO CODES
1/7/2026