Designates a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals as a qualified agency for the purpose of allowing access to the division of criminal justice services central data facility which contains criminal records, personal appearance date, fingerprints, photographs, handwriting samples and other information.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8228
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 23, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating a society
for the prevention of cruelty to animals as a qualified agency for the
purpose of allowing access to the division of criminal justice
services central data facility
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 835 of the executive law, as sepa-
2 rately amended by chapters 14 and 155 of the laws of 2012, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 9. "Qualified agencies" means courts in the unified court system, the
5 administrative board of the judicial conference, probation departments,
6 sheriffs' offices, district attorneys' offices, the state department of
7 corrections and community supervision, the department of correction of
8 any municipality, the financial frauds and consumer protection unit of
9 the state department of financial services, the office of professional
10 medical conduct of the state department of health for the purposes of
11 section two hundred thirty of the public health law, the child protec-
12 tive services unit of a local social services district when conducting
13 an investigation pursuant to subdivision six of section four hundred
14 twenty-four of the social services law, the office of Medicaid inspector
15 general, the temporary state commission of investigation, police forces
16 and departments having responsibility for enforcement of the general
17 criminal laws of the state, a duly incorporated society for the
18 prevention of cruelty to animals when acting within the scope of its law
19 enforcement duties, the Onondaga County Center for Forensic Sciences
20 Laboratory when acting within the scope of its law enforcement duties
21 and the division of forensic services of the Nassau county medical exam-
22 iner's office when acting within the scope of its law enforcement
23 duties.
24 § 2. 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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