Bill Text: NY A01609 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals as a qualified agency for the purpose of allowing access to the division of criminal justice services central data facility which contains criminal records, personal appearance date, fingerprints, photographs, handwriting samples and other information.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-10 - referred to codes [A01609 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01609-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1609

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 10, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes

        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating a society
          for the prevention of cruelty to animals as a qualified agency for the
          purpose of  allowing  access  to  the  division  of  criminal  justice
          services central data facility

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 835 of the executive law, as sepa-
     2  rately amended by chapters 14 and 155 of the laws of 2012, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    9. "Qualified agencies" means courts in the unified court system,  the
     5  administrative  board of the judicial conference, probation departments,
     6  sheriffs' offices, district attorneys' offices, the state department  of
     7  corrections  and  community supervision, the department of correction of
     8  any municipality, the financial frauds and consumer protection  unit  of
     9  the  state  department of financial services, the office of professional
    10  medical conduct of the state department of health for  the  purposes  of
    11  section  two  hundred thirty of the public health law, the child protec-
    12  tive services unit of a local social services district  when  conducting
    13  an  investigation  pursuant  to  subdivision six of section four hundred
    14  twenty-four of the social services law, the office of Medicaid inspector
    15  general, the temporary state commission of investigation, police  forces
    16  and  departments  having  responsibility  for enforcement of the general
    17  criminal laws  of  the  state,  a  duly  incorporated  society  for  the
    18  prevention of cruelty to animals when acting within the scope of its law
    19  enforcement  duties,  the  Onondaga  County Center for Forensic Sciences
    20  Laboratory when acting within the scope of its  law  enforcement  duties
    21  and the division of forensic services of the Nassau county medical exam-
    22  iner's  office  when  acting  within  the  scope  of its law enforcement
    23  duties.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04402-01-5