Bill Text: NY A06130 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the issuance of a warrant for the use of electronic tracking devices.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A06130 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A06130-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6130 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 23, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. MOYA, RIVERA, RODRIGUEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to requiring the issuance of a warrant for the use of electronic tracking devices The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 700.05 of the criminal procedure 2 law, as amended by chapter 744 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 1. "Eavesdropping" means "wiretapping", "mechanical overhearing of 5 conversation[," or the] ", "intercepting or accessing of an electronic 6 communication", as those terms are defined in section 250.00 of the 7 penal law, or the use of an electronic tracking device, but does not 8 include the use of a pen register or trap and trace device when author- 9 ized pursuant to article [705] seven hundred five of this chapter. 10 § 2. Section 700.05 of the criminal procedure law is amended by adding 11 a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 12 1-a. "Electronic tracking device" means an electronic or mechanical 13 device which permits the tracking of the movement of a person or thing 14 by means of a global positioning system or by any other means. 15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 16 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07933-01-7