Bill Text: NY S07194 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits a grand jury from inquiring into an offense or misconduct involving involves a shooting or use of excessive force by a police officer and/or peace officer that led or leads to the death or personal injury of a civilian.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S07194 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S07194-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7194 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 18, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to prohibiting a grand jury from inquiring into an offense or misconduct that involves a shooting or use of excessive force by a police officer or peace officer that led or leads to the death or personal injury of a civil- ian The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 190.55 of the criminal procedure 2 law is amended to read as follows: 3 1. (a) A grand jury may hear and examine evidence concerning the 4 alleged commission of any offense prosecutable in the courts of the 5 county, and concerning any misconduct, nonfeasance or neglect in public 6 office by a public servant, whether criminal or otherwise. 7 (b) A grand jury shall not inquire into an offense or misconduct that 8 involves a shooting or use of excessive force by a police officer and/or 9 peace officer, as defined in sections 1.20 and 2.10 of this chapter 10 respectively, that led or leads to the death or personal injury of a 11 civilian. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08045-01-3
