Assembly Bill A7896

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Clarifies the definition of business records and the use of such records in grand jury proceedings

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A7896 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §190.30, CP L

2025-A7896 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies the definition of business records and the use of such records in grand jury proceedings.

2025-A7896 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7896
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred 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:

   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of  section  190.30  of  the
 criminal  procedure law, as added by chapter 279 of the laws of 2008, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) A business record AS DEFINED IN RULE FORTY-FIVE  HUNDRED  EIGHTEEN
 OF  THE  CIVIL PRACTICE LAW AND RULES GENERATED BY A BUSINESS ENTITY may
 be received in such grand jury proceedings as evidence [of the following
 facts and similar facts stated therein:
   (i) a person's use of, subscription to and charges  and  payments  for
 communication equipment and services including but not limited to equip-
 ment  or  services  provided by telephone companies and internet service
 providers, but not including recorded conversations or  images  communi-
 cated thereby; and
   (ii)  financial  transactions,  and a person's ownership or possessory
 interest in any  account,  at  a  bank,  insurance  company,  brokerage,
 exchange  or banking organization as defined in section two of the bank-
 ing law].
   § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 8 of section 190.30 of the  criminal
 procedure  law,  as added by chapter 279 of the laws of 2008, is amended
 to read as follows:
   (c) Any business record offered to a grand jury pursuant to  paragraph
 (a) of this subdivision that includes material [beyond that described in
 such paragraph (a)] OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THE BUSINESS RECORD AS REGULAR-
 LY  GENERATED  shall be redacted to exclude such additional material, or
 received subject to a limiting instruction that the grand jury shall not
 consider such additional material in support of any criminal charge.
   § 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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