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S329 • 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
Jamaal Bailey
Last action
2026-05-18
Official status
Passed Assembly
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 FOR A673A

  2. 2026-05-18 Assembly

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.24

  3. 2026-05-18 Assembly

    PASSED ASSEMBLY

  4. 2026-05-18 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  5. 2026-04-22 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  6. 2026-04-22 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  7. 2026-04-22 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CODES

  8. 2026-03-26 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  9. 2026-03-25 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  10. 2026-03-24 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.587

  11. 2026-01-28 Senate

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

  12. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    DIED IN ASSEMBLY

  13. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  14. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO CODES

  15. 2025-06-11 Assembly

    SUBSTITUTED FOR A673A

  16. 2025-06-11 Assembly

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.598

  17. 2025-05-28 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  18. 2025-05-28 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  19. 2025-05-28 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CODES

  20. 2025-05-22 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  21. 2025-05-21 Senate

    AMENDED 329A

  22. 2025-05-21 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  23. 2025-05-20 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.1245

  24. 2025-01-08 Senate

    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
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           329

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                       (PREFILED)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  BAILEY, BRISPORT, COMRIE, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, KRUEGER,
          MYRIE, RIVERA, SALAZAR -- read twice and  ordered  printed,  and  when
          printed to be committed 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