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Senate Bill S6773

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to tampering with physical evidence

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2025-S6773 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1426
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §215.40, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8584, A10596
2021-2022: S1987, A5621
2023-2024: S1990, A677

2025-S6773 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes a police or peace officers turning off their body camera or deleting a body camera recording in the crime of tampering with physical evidence.

2025-S6773 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6773 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6773
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  JACKSON,  HOYLMAN-SIGAL,  PARKER,  RAMOS, RIVERA,
   SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed  to  be
   committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to tampering with physical
   evidence
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  215.40  of  the  penal law is amended to read as
 follows:
 § 215.40 Tampering with physical evidence.
   A person is guilty of tampering with physical evidence when:
   1. With intent that it be used or introduced in an official proceeding
 or a prospective official proceeding, [he]  SUCH  PERSON  (a)  knowingly
 makes,  devises  or prepares false physical evidence, or (b) produces or
 offers such evidence at such a proceeding knowing it to be false; or
   2. Believing that certain physical evidence is about to be produced or
 used in an official proceeding or a prospective official proceeding, and
 intending to prevent such production or use, [he] SUCH PERSON suppresses
 it by any act of concealment, alteration or destruction, or by employing
 force, intimidation or deception against any person; OR
   3. SUCH PERSON IS A POLICE OR PEACE OFFICER AND  EITHER  TURNS  OFF  A
 BODY  CAMERA  IN  A  SITUATION  WHERE IT IS THE POLICY OF SUCH OFFICER'S
 DEPARTMENT OR AGENCY THAT SUCH BODY CAMERA SHOULD BE RECORDING, OR WHERE
 SUCH OFFICER DELETES A BODY CAMERA RECORDING.
   Tampering with physical evidence is a class E felony.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03959-01-5

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