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                                   5690
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the office of special
   investigation
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Subdivisions 2 and 6 of section 70-b of the executive law,
 as added by chapter 95 of the laws of  2020,  are  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   2.  The  attorney  general  has  investigative  authority and criminal
 jurisdiction under this section at the time of the death of  the  person
 and  the  attorney  general retains investigative authority and criminal
 jurisdiction over the incident unless the  attorney  general  determines
 that  such  incident  does not meet the requirements of this section. If
 the attorney general determines the incident does not meet the  require-
 ments for the attorney general to have investigative authority and crim-
 inal  jurisdiction pursuant to this section, the attorney general shall,
 [as soon as practicable] WITHIN SIXTY DAYS, provide  written  notice  of
 such  determination to the district attorney for the county in which the
 incident occurred.
   6. (a) For any incident under this  section,  the  office  of  special
 investigation  shall  issue  a  public report and post the report on its
 website whenever the office of special investigation initiates an inves-
 tigation and (i) the office of special investigation declines to present
 evidence to a grand jury or (ii) the  office  of  special  investigation
 does  present  evidence  to  a grand jury but the grand jury declines to
 return indictment on any charges. The report will include, to the extent
 possible and lawful, the results of the investigation of  the  incident.
 SUCH  REPORT  SHALL BE ISSUED WITHIN SIXTY DAYS OF THE INITIATION OF THE
 INVESTIGATION; PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERIOD MAY, FOR GOOD CAUSE  SHOWN,  BE
 EXTENDED FOR THIRTY DAY INTERVALS.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (b)  The  report  shall also include: (i) with respect to subparagraph
 (i) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision, an explanation as to  why  the
 office  of special investigation declined to present evidence to a grand
 jury; and (ii) any recommendations for systemic or other reforms arising
 from the investigation.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.