Requires police and peace officers receive a lawful order before assisting with immigration enforcement; requires federal agents identify themselves at the request of public officers, police officers or peace officers; establishes penalties for federal agents who fail to identify themselves.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8994
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
August 13, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to prohibiting
police officers and peace officers from enforcing federal immigration
law unless such officer received a lawful order
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 46 to read as follows:
3 46. "Immigration law" means any civil provision of the federal Immi-
4 gration and Nationality Act and any provision of law that penalizes a
5 person's presence in, entry into, or reentry into the United States.
6 § 2. The criminal procedure law is amended by adding a new article 183
7 to read to as follows:
8 ARTICLE 183
9 IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT REQUIREMENTS
10 Section 183.10 Immigration enforcement requirements.
11 § 183.10 Immigration enforcement requirements.
12 No police officer or peace officer shall honor any directive or
13 request concerning the enforcement of immigration law, unless contained
14 in a lawful order issued by an immigration judge, a United States magis-
15 trate judge or a district court judge. Any federal agent attempting to
16 enforce immigration law shall carry identification which shall be
17 produced on demand of any public officer, police officer or peace offi-
18 cer and any such federal agent that fails to produce such identification
19 shall be guilty of a violation as such term is defined in section 10.00
20 of the penal law and any subsequent violations shall be deemed a class B
21 misdemeanor.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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