Bill Text: NY A07679 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the accreditation of agencies examining latent fingerprints.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-01 - signed chap.209 [A07679 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07679-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7679

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 19, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- (at request of the Division of Crimi-
          nal  Justice  Services)  -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Codes

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the  accreditation  of
          agencies examining latent fingerprints

          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 995 of the executive law, as added
     2  by chapter 737 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. For purposes of general forensic analysis the term "forensic  labo-
     4  ratory" shall mean any laboratory operated by the state or unit of local
     5  government  that  performs  forensic  testing  on evidence in a criminal
     6  investigation or proceeding or for purposes of identification [provided,
     7  however, that the examination of latent fingerprints by a police  agency
     8  shall not be subject to the provisions of this article].
     9    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
    10  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law, provided howev-
    11  er that a police  agency  examining  latent  fingerprints  shall  attain
    12  accreditation  no later than five years after the effective date of this
    13  act.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09959-01-1