Bill Text: NY A08994 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires police and peace officers receive a lawful order before assisting with immigration enforcement; requires federal agents identify themselves at the request of public officers, police officers or peace officers; establishes penalties for federal agents who fail to identify themselves.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-01-07 - referred to codes [A08994 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A08994-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8994

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 13, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation  to  prohibiting
          police  officers and peace officers from enforcing federal immigration
          law unless such officer received a lawful order

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  1.20 of the criminal procedure law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 46 to read as follows:
     3    46. "Immigration law" means any civil provision of the  federal  Immi-
     4  gration  and  Nationality  Act and any provision of law that penalizes a
     5  person's presence in, entry into, or reentry into the United States.
     6    § 2. The criminal procedure law is amended by adding a new article 183
     7  to read to as follows:

     8                                 ARTICLE 183
     9                    IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT REQUIREMENTS
    10  Section 183.10 Immigration enforcement requirements.
    11  § 183.10 Immigration enforcement requirements.
    12    No police officer or  peace  officer  shall  honor  any  directive  or
    13  request  concerning the enforcement of immigration law, unless contained
    14  in a lawful order issued by an immigration judge, a United States magis-
    15  trate judge or a district court judge. Any federal agent  attempting  to
    16  enforce  immigration  law  shall  carry  identification  which  shall be
    17  produced on demand of any public officer, police officer or peace  offi-
    18  cer and any such federal agent that fails to produce such identification
    19  shall  be guilty of a violation as such term is defined in section 10.00
    20  of the penal law and any subsequent violations shall be deemed a class B
    21  misdemeanor.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13364-04-5