S 8531 New York Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Relates to the removal of adolescent offenders to family court; and relates to jurisdiction of family court

Summary

Limits the circumstances under which the case of an adolescent offender may be removed to family court; limits the jurisdiction of family court with respect to certain repeat adolescent offenders.

Issues: ✗ Criminal Justice

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Oct 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Oct 17, 2025 Last action Jan 14, 2026

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What changed between versions

S8531 → S8531A · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended to add five new sponsors and update the legislative history to reflect that the bill was reprinted after committee review and amendment. The substantive legal text regarding the removal of adolescent offenders to family court remains unchanged.

Scope change

The bill's scope and applicability remain unchanged; only the list of sponsors and procedural history were updated.

TECHNICAL

Added five new sponsors to the bill: Sens. BORRELLO, CHAN, GALLIVAN, HELMING, MATTERA, OBERACKER, PALUMBO, and WEIK.

Updated the procedural history to show the bill was reprinted as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Codes after being discharged from the Committee on Rules.

Changed the bill number from S 8531 to S 8531--A to indicate the amended version.

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Committee

Amendments

Jan 14, 2026

Upper · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 8531A

upper

Jan 14, 2026

Upper · Passed

AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CODES

upper

Jan 7, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO CODES

upper

Oct 17, 2025

Committee

REFERRED TO RULES

upper

1 primary · 10 co-sponsors