STATE OF NEW YORK
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8298
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 30, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to business
records in grand jury proceedings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of section 190.30 of the
2 criminal procedure law, as added by chapter 279 of the laws of 2008, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) A business record as defined in rule forty-five hundred eighteen
5 of the civil practice law and rules generated by a business entity may
6 be received in such grand jury proceedings as evidence [of the following
7 facts and similar facts stated therein:
8 (i) a person's use of, subscription to and charges and payments for
9 communication equipment and services including but not limited to equip-
10 ment or services provided by telephone companies and internet service
11 providers, but not including recorded conversations or images communi-
12 cated thereby; and
13 (ii) financial transactions, and a person's ownership or possessory
14 interest in any account, at a bank, insurance company, brokerage,
15 exchange or banking organization as defined in section two of the bank-
16 ing law].
17 § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 8 of section 190.30 of the criminal
18 procedure law, as added by chapter 279 of the laws of 2008, is amended
19 to read as follows:
20 (c) Any business record offered to a grand jury pursuant to paragraph
21 (a) of this subdivision that includes material [beyond that described in
22 such paragraph (a)] outside the scope of the business record as regular-
23 ly generated shall be redacted to exclude such additional material, or
24 received subject to a limiting instruction that the grand jury shall not
25 consider such additional material in support of any criminal charge.
26 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10861-01-5
