Bill > A04183

Introduced Session

AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, the executive law, the correction law, the vehicle and traffic law, the village law and the state finance law, in relation to eliminating court surcharges and fees; and to repeal certain provisions of the penal law, the vehicle and traffic law, the correction law, the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, the executive law and the environmental conservation law relating thereto (Part A); to amend the penal law and the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting mandatory minimum fines for penal law and vehicle and traffic offenses (Part B); to amend the penal law and the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to mandating that courts engage in an individualized assessment of a person's financial ability to pay a fine prior to imposing a fine (Part C); to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to eliminating the availability of incarceration as a remedy for a failure to pay a fine, surcharge or fee, lifting and vacating all existing warrants issued solely based on a person's failure to timely pay a fine, surcharge or fee and ending all existing sentences of incarceration based on such failure; and to repeal certain provisions of the criminal procedure law relating thereto (Part D); in relation to vacating all existing unsatisfied civil judgments entered solely based on a person's failure to timely pay a surcharge or fee and to repeal certain provisions of the criminal procedure law relating thereto (Part E); to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to prohibiting the collection of a fine, restitution or reparation from the funds of an incarcerated person; and to amend the correction law, in relation to prohibiting the payment of court fines, mandatory surcharges, certain fees, restitution, reparation or forfeitures from the earnings of prisoners (Part F); and in relation to vacating all existing unpaid surcharges, DNA databank fees, crime victim assistance fees, sexual offender registration fees, or supplemental sex offender victim fees (Part G)

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Kenny Burgos (D)*,  George Alvarez (D),  Khaleel Anderson (D),  Juan Ardila (D),  Jeffrion Aubry (D),  Alex Bores (D),  Harry Bronson (D),  Chris Burdick (D),  Robert Carroll (D),  Monique Chandler-Waterman (D),  Vivian Cook (D),  Catalina Cruz (D),  Taylor Darling (D),  Maritza Davila (D),  Harvey Epstein (D),  Emily Gallagher (D),  Eddie Gibbs (D),  Deborah Glick (D),  Jessica González-Rojas (D),  Andrew Hevesi (D),  Alicia Hyndman (D),  Chantel Jackson (D),  Anna Kelles (D),  Charles Lavine (D),  Dana Levenberg (D),  Zohran Mamdani (D),  Demond Meeks (D),  Marcela Mitaynes (D),  Steven Raga (D),  Karines Reyes (D),  Jon Rivera (D),  Linda Rosenthal (D),  Rebecca Seawright (D),  Amanda Septimo (D),  Maryjane Shimsky (D),  Sarahana Shrestha (D),  Jo Anne Simon (D),  Tony Simone (D),  Michaelle Solages (D),  Phara Souffrant Forrest (D),  Phil Steck (D),  Yudelka Tapia (D),  Al Taylor (D),  Latrice Walker (D),  John Zaccaro (D),  Stefani Zinerman (D), 

enacting clause stricken (on 07/22/2024)

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