STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6005

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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  prohibiting  law
          enforcement officers and peace officers from inquiring about the immi-
          gration status of a victim or witness to a criminal offense

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

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  837-x
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 837-x.  Prohibitions on law enforcement officers and peace officers.
     4  1.  A  law  enforcement officer or a peace officer may not inquire as to
     5  the immigration status of a victim of or witness to a  criminal  offense
     6  except as necessary to investigate the offense.
     7    2.  For the purposes of this section "law enforcement officer" means a
     8  state or local police officer  and  "peace  officer"  means  any  person
     9  designated  as  a peace officer pursuant to section 2.10 of the criminal
    10  procedure law.
    11    § 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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