Senate Bill S173

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Enacts the "diplomatic immunity notification act"

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S173 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2730
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Law Enforcement Officers
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A8051
2011-2012: A291
2013-2014: S7393, A3519
2017-2018: S2025

2015-S173 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires notification to certain federal and state agencies when certain persons with diplomatic immunity violate the law; requires a report by law enforcement or police agencies to include, but not be limited to, the name of the person protected by diplomatic immunity; the person's title, position and/or assignment in the United States; and the date, time, location and nature of the incident, including the potential penal law violations prompting such person having been arrested or who would have been arrested but for their diplomatic immunity.

2015-S173 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S173 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   173

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

AN ACT in relation to requiring  notification  to  certain  federal  and
  state  agencies  when certain persons with diplomatic immunity violate
  the law

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "diplomat-
ic immunity notification act".
  S  2.  1.  Each  incident,  occurrence  or circumstance where a person
protected from detention, arrest, and/or prosecution by diplomatic immu-
nity was in fact arrested, or would have been  arrested  but  for  their
diplomatic  immunity  by a law enforcement or police agency concerning a
potential crime that would be punishable as a misdemeanor or  a  felony,
shall  be  reported  by  such agency to the division of criminal justice
services and to the United States Department of State Bureau  of  Diplo-
matic Security.
  2.  Such  report  shall  include  the  name of the person protected by
diplomatic immunity; the person's title, position and/or  assignment  in
the  United States; and the date, time, location and nature of the inci-
dent, including the potential penal law violations prompting such person
having been, or who would have been arrested but  for  their  diplomatic
immunity.
  3.  On an annual basis the division of criminal justice services shall
issue a statistical report about the number of incidents reported pursu-
ant to subdivisions 1 and 2 of this section to the  governor,  temporary
president  of  the senate, minority leader of the senate, speaker of the
assembly, and minority leader of the assembly. Such report shall also be
transmitted to the United States Department of State Bureau of Diplomat-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00189-01-5

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