Assembly Bill A1877

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the establishment of a single computerized state DNA identification index and requires municipalities to expunge any DNA record stored in a municipal DNA identification index

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A1877 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S998
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §995-c, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A7818, S6009
2021-2022: A6124, S1347

2023-A1877 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the establishment of a single computerized state DNA identification index; requires municipalities to expunge any DNA record stored in a municipal DNA identification index.

2023-A1877 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1877
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZINERMAN,  JACKSON, BURGOS, ANDERSON, SIMON,
   EPSTEIN, GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once and referred to the Committee  on
   Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the establishment of a
   single computerized state DNA identification index and requiring muni-
   cipalities  to  expunge any DNA record stored in a municipal DNA iden-
   tification index
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions 1, 2, 3 and 9 of section 995-c of the execu-
 tive law, subdivisions 1 and 2 as added by chapter 737 of  the  laws  of
 1994,  subdivision  3  as  amended  by  chapter  19 of the laws of 2012,
 subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b)  of  subdivision  3  as  amended  by
 section  1 of part A of chapter 55 of the laws of 2012 and subdivision 9
 as amended by chapter 524 of the laws of 2002, are amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  Following  the promulgation of a policy by the commission pursuant
 to subdivision nine of section nine hundred ninety-five-b of this  arti-
 cle,  the  commissioner  of  criminal  justice services is authorized to
 promulgate a plan for the establishment of a SINGLE  computerized  state
 DNA  identification  index  within  the  division  of  criminal  justice
 services. NO COUNTY, CITY, TOWN, VILLAGE, OR MUNICIPALITY, OR ANY ENTITY
 THEREOF, MAY ESTABLISH OR MAINTAIN  A  COMPUTERIZED  DNA  IDENTIFICATION
 INDEX.
   2. Following the review and approval of the plan by the DNA subcommit-
 tee  and  the commission and the filing of such plan with the speaker of
 the assembly and the temporary president of the senate, the commissioner
 of criminal justice services is hereby authorized to establish a  SINGLE
 computerized  state  DNA identification index pursuant to the provisions
 of this article.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01159-01-3
 A. 1877                             2
              

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