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Assembly Bill A3162

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides access to live scan fingerprinting to society for the prevention of cruelty to animals officers

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2025-A3162 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1664
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §160.10, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9637, S7059
2021-2022: A3445, S2978
2023-2024: A1196, S1182

2025-A3162 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides access to live scan fingerprinting to society for the prevention of cruelty to animals officers.

2025-A3162 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3162
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL, SIMON, STECK, LUNSFORD, JACOBSON,
   GLICK, TAGUE, SLATER -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on
   Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the criminal procedure law, in relation to providing
   access to live scan fingerprinting to society for  the  prevention  of
   cruelty to animals officers

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 160.10 of the criminal procedure law is amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
   1-A. FOLLOWING AN ARREST BY A SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO
 ANIMALS OFFICER, SUCH OFFICER SHALL BE PERMITTED ACCESS TO THE LIVE SCAN
 FINGERPRINTING  SYSTEM  OR SIMILAR TECHNOLOGY IN ORDER TO EFFECTUATE THE
 COMPLETION OF SUCH ARREST INDEPENDENTLY AND WITHOUT  THE  ASSISTANCE  OF
 OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03883-01-5

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