Amd §380.50, CP L (as proposed in S.7546 & A.6332-A)
Requires that following the acquittal after trial or the sentencing of any defendant for a felony, the district attorney, or their designee, shall provide by mail, electronically, or by any other reasonable and secure means of written communication a written summary of the disposition of such felony to any victim who was not present at the time that the defendant was sentenced or acquitted after trial.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A9493
SPONSOR: Romero TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the criminal procedure law, in
relation to the method of notifying certain crime victims of the dispo-
sition of criminal trial
PURPOSE: The purpose of this bill is to make clarifying amendments to
Chapter 584 of the laws of 2025, relating to providing certain crime
victims with a summary of felony case dispositions.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS
Section 1 of the bill would amend subdivision 2 of section 380.50 of the
criminal procedure law by clarifying that a district attorney, or their
designee, must provide a victim with a written summary of a felony
disposition through reasonable and secure means if a victim was not
present at the time sentencing or acquittal.
Section 2 of the bill would establish the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION There is a fundamental need for crime victims to be kept
informed concerning the criminal justice process in which they have
become involved. In some cases, crime victims can lose track of the
state of their case, miss court dates, and not be informed on outcomes.
At the closure of a criminal case acquittal at trial or sentencing for a
felony - this bill would require the district attorney or their designee
to mail the named crime victim a copy of the final disposition.
For example: notifying the crime victim that the criminal defendant that
has pled guilty has then been sentenced to a certain number of years or
was given a fine of a certain number of dollars, or was sentenced to a
certain number of years of probation, or was acquitted after trial. This
legislation would provide restorative justice, closure, and finality to
a criminal case that crime victims may not have otherwise because they
were not present in court to witness and absorb this information them-
selves.
This bill would make amendments to a Chapter of the laws of 2025 to
clarify that a district attorney, or their designee, shall provide a
victim with a written summary of a felony disposition through reasonable
and secure means.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
New bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the State.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as a
chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the criminal procedure law relating
to notifying certain crime victims of the disposition of criminal trial,
as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7546 and A. 6332-A, takes
effect.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9493
IN ASSEMBLY
January 7, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. ROMERO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the method of
notifying certain crime victims of the disposition of criminal trial
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 2 of section 380.50 of the
2 criminal procedure law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2025 amend-
3 ing the criminal procedure law relating to notifying certain crime
4 victims of the disposition of criminal trial, as proposed in legislative
5 bills numbers S. 7546 and A. 6332-A, is amended to read as follows:
6 (g) Following the acquittal after trial or the sentencing of any
7 defendant for a felony, the district attorney, or their designee, shall
8 [mail] provide a written summary of the disposition of such felony to
9 any victim who was not present at the time such defendant was sentenced
10 or acquitted after trial. Such written summary shall be provided by
11 mail, electronically, or by any other reasonable and secure means of
12 written communication.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
14 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the criminal procedure
15 law relating to notifying certain crime victims of the disposition of
16 criminal trial, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7546 and A.
17 6332-A, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09461-04-6
