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New York · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

A 53: Allows evidence of a defendant's prior crimes or acts to be admissible in a criminal case for certain purposes

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

A 53 is a bill introduced in the New York House on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Allows evidence of a defendant's prior crimes or acts to be admissible in a criminal case for certain purposes. Primary sponsor: Amy Paulin (Democratic). It lists 35 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (January 7, 2026): REFERRED TO CODES.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Allows evidence of a defendant's prior crimes or acts to be admissible in a criminal case for certain purposes including as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, state of mind of the defendant, state of mind of the victim or other party, absence of mistake or accident, identity, modus operandi, or common scheme or plan; requires that the prosecution provide reasonable notice of the general nature of any such evidence it intends to introduce at trial.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 24 · Democratic/Independence/Working Families 2 · Democratic/Working Families 5 · Republican 1 · Republican/Conservative 3

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Amy PaulinPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse88
Stacey Pheffer AmatoCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse23
Didi BarrettCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse106
Chris BurdickCo-sponsorDemocratic/Independence/Working FamiliesHouse93
Noah BurroughsCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesHouse18
Marianne ButtenschonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse119
Sarah ClarkCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesHouse136
William ColtonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse47
Bill ConradCo-sponsorDemocratic/Independence/Working FamiliesHouse140
Joe DeStefanoCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeHouse3
Jeffrey DinowitzCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse81
Chris EachusCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse99
Harvey EpsteinCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Jodi GiglioCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeHouse2
Deborah GlickCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse66
Judy GriffinCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse21
Andrew HevesiCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse28
Pamela HunterCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse128
Ron KimCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse40
Charles LavineCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse13
Grace LeeCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse65
Dana LevenbergCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesHouse95
Dave McDonoughCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse14
Andrew MolitorCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeHouse150
Steven RagaCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse30
Linda RosenthalCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse67
Nily RozicCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse25
Angelo SantabarbaraCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse111
Tommy John SchiavoniCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesHouse1
Rebecca SeawrightCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse76
MaryJane ShimskyCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesHouse92
Jo Anne SimonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse52
Tony SimoneCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse75
Steve SternCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse10
Al StirpeCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse127
John ZaccaroCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse80

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. REFERRED TO CODES
  2. PRINT NUMBER 53A
  3. AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CODES
  4. REFERRED TO CODES

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source