Bill Text: NY S05082 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that digital or electronic representations of certain personal identification data and criminal history records are inter-changeable with the physical counterparts of such items.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S05082 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S05082-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5082
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 27, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen. LEIBELL -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to electronic equivalents
         of certain personal identification and criminal history data
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 837 of the executive law, as added
    2  by  chapter  399  of  the laws of 1972 and such section as renumbered by
    3  chapter 603 of the laws of 1973, is amended to read as follows:
    4    7. Receive, process  and  file  fingerprints,  photographs  and  other
    5  descriptive  data  for the purpose of establishing identity and previous
    6  criminal record. WHENEVER ANY PROVISION OF LAW REQUIRES OR  PERMITS  THE
    7  SUBMISSION,  TRANSMISSION,  FORWARDING, RETENTION, RETURN OR DESTRUCTION
    8  THEREOF, THE TERMS "CRIMINAL RECORD", "CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD",  "FING-
    9  ERPRINTS",  "FINGERPRINT  CARDS", "PHOTOGRAPHS", "PALMPRINTS", "PERSONAL
   10  APPEARANCE DATA", "HANDWRITING SAMPLES", AND  "DESCRIPTIVE  DATA"  SHALL
   11  MEAN  AND INCLUDE DIGITAL OR ELECTRONIC IMAGES, IMPRESSIONS, REPRESENTA-
   12  TIONS OR REPRODUCTIONS OF SUCH CRIMINAL RECORD, CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD,
   13  FINGERPRINTS, FINGERPRINT CARDS, PHOTOGRAPHS,  PALMPRINTS,  PHOTOGRAPHIC
   14  PLATES  OR  PROOFS,  PERSONAL  APPEARANCE  DATA, HANDWRITING SAMPLES AND
   15  DESCRIPTIVE DATA OR ANY OTHER RELATED MATERIALS  IN  THE  POSSESSION  OR
   16  CONTROL OF THE DIVISION THAT MAY BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING
   17  IDENTITY OR PREVIOUS CRIMINAL RECORD;
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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