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A673 • 2025

Facilitates appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern

Facilitates appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Catalina Cruz
Last action
2026-05-18
Official status
Assembly Floor Calendar
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Facilitates appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern

Facilitates appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern Relates to facilitating appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern.

What This Bill Does

  • Facilitates appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern Relates to facilitating appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-05-18 Assembly

    SUBSTITUTED BY S329A

  2. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.24

  3. 2025-06-11 Assembly

    REPORTED

  4. 2025-06-11 Assembly

    RULES REPORT CAL.598

  5. 2025-06-11 Assembly

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.598

  6. 2025-06-11 Assembly

    SUBSTITUTED BY S329A

  7. 2025-06-09 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES

  8. 2025-05-22 Assembly

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CODES

  9. 2025-05-22 Assembly

    PRINT NUMBER 673A

  10. 2025-01-08 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CODES

Official Summary Text

Facilitates appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern
Relates to facilitating appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           673

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       (PREFILED)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ, BORES, ROSENTHAL, KELLES, JACKSON -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to  facilitating
          appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 710.70 of the  criminal  procedure
     2  law is amended to read as follows:
     3    2.  An order finally denying a motion to suppress evidence [may] SHALL
     4  be  [reviewed]  REVIEWABLE  upon  an  appeal from an ensuing judgment of
     5  conviction notwithstanding the fact that such judgment is entered upon a
     6  plea of guilty AND NOT WITHSTANDING AN OTHERWISE ENFORCEABLE  WAIVER  OF
     7  THE RIGHT TO APPEAL.
     8    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00202-02-5