Bill Text: NY A08552 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting sanctuary for illegal immigrants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-10 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A08552 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08552-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8552--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    October 30, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. MURRAY, McDONOUGH, HAWLEY, DiPIETRO, LAWRENCE,
          CROUCH, GRAF, NOJAY, TENNEY, RA -- Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.
          McLAUGHLIN  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental
          Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Governmental  Operations
          in  accordance  with  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law and the general municipal law, in
          relation to creating the NY Cares Act
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. This act shall be known as the New Yorkers Combating Alien
     2  Recidivism and Ending Sanctuary Act and may be cited as  the  "NY  Cares
     3  Act".
     4    §  2.  Paragraph  (u) of subdivision 2 of section 709 of the executive
     5  law is relettered paragraph (v) and a new paragraph (u) is added to read
     6  as follows:
     7    (u) develop a plan to ensure that  all  counties,  cities,  towns  and
     8  villages,  and  any  agency,  office,  department  or authority thereof,
     9  including  a  sheriff's  department,  municipal  police  department   or
    10  district  attorney's  office  are in compliance with the requirements of
    11  section one hundred thirty-nine-e of the general municipal law.
    12    § 3. The general municipal law is amended  by  adding  a  new  section
    13  139-e to read as follows:
    14    §  139-e.  Prohibition  against  local  government  action  to prevent
    15  enforcement of certain federal laws. 1. In accordance with articles nine
    16  and thirteen of the constitution of the state of New  York,  no  county,
    17  city,  town  or  village, or any agency, office, department or authority
    18  thereof, including a sheriff's department, municipal police  department,
    19  or  district  attorney's  office,  or the governing board thereof, shall
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11792-06-6