Bill Text: NY S02395 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the definition of dangerous contraband to include telecommunications and electronic recording devices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S02395 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02395-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2395
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 13, 2017
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        Introduced  by Sen. GIANARIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to expanding  the  definition
          of  dangerous  contraband to include telecommunications and electronic
          recording devices
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 205.00 of the penal law is amended
     2  to read as follows:
     3    4.  "Dangerous  contraband"  means contraband which is capable of such
     4  use as may endanger the safety or security of a  detention  facility  or
     5  any  person therein, which shall include, but not be limited to, a tele-
     6  communications or electronic recording  device.  For  purposes  of  this
     7  subdivision, a "telecommunications or electronic recording device" means
     8  any type of instrument, device, machine or equipment that is designed to
     9  transmit  and/or  receive  telephonic,  electronic, digital, cellular or
    10  radio signals or communications or any part of such instrument,  device,
    11  machine or equipment, as well as any type of instrument designed to have
    12  sound or image recording abilities and shall include, but not be limited
    13  to, a cellular or digital phone, a pager, a two-way radio text messaging
    14  or  modem  device (including modem equipment devices), a camera, a video
    15  recorder and tape or digital recording devices, or any other device that
    16  has said capabilities.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the fifteenth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06921-01-7