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Assembly Bill A1682

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires that certain New York state police vehicles be equipped with a dashboard camera

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2025-A1682 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §212-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8497
2021-2022: A4045
2023-2024: A5172

2025-A1682 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that certain New York state police vehicles be equipped with a dashboard camera.

2025-A1682 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1682
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SHIMSKY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring that certain
   New York state police vehicles be equipped with a dashboard camera
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 212-a
 to read as follows:
   § 212-A. MANDATORY EQUIPMENT. EACH MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATED BY THE STATE
 POLICE IN CONNECTION WITH  THE  PATROL  OF  THE  STATE'S  ROADWAYS,  THE
 PREVENTION  AND  INVESTIGATION  OF  CRIMES,  OR  THE PREPARATION FOR AND
 RESPONSE TO EMERGENCIES AND DISASTERS SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH A DASHBOARD
 CAMERA.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
 ly  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal  of any rule or regulation
 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
 authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02845-01-5

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