Bill Text: NY S09722 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 9722

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that any electronically or electromagnetically transmitted facsimile of a governor's warrant shall be treated as an original document.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-05 - referred to codes [S09722 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09722-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9722

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 22, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced   by  Sen.  BAILEY  --  (at  request  of  the  Department  of
          Corrections and Community  Supervision)  --  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 electronic
          transmittal of the governor's warrant

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

     1    Section  1. Section 570.18 of the criminal procedure law is amended to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 570.18 Issuance of warrant of arrest by governor; recitals therein.
     4    If the governor decides that the demand should be complied with,  [he]
     5  the  governor shall sign a warrant of arrest, which shall be sealed with
     6  the state seal, and be directed to any police officer  or  other  person
     7  whom [he] the governor may think fit to entrust with the execution ther-
     8  eof.  The  warrant  must substantially recite the facts necessary to the
     9  validity of its  issuance.  Any  electronically  or  electromagnetically
    10  transmitted  facsimile  of  a  governor's warrant shall be treated as an
    11  original document.
    12    § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14691-01-4