NY State Senate Bill 2025-S2673

Senate Bill S2673

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Clarifies that the department of corrections is not required to obtain and input into its electronic record-keeping applications any individual's otherwise uncollected former legal name or any alias

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Current Bill Status - On Floor Calendar

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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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 27, 2025	ordered to third reading cal.156
Jan 22, 2025	referred to rules

Votes

- Jan 27, 2025 - Rules Committee Vote
  S2673
  
  18
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  2
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jan 27, 2025
      
      aye (18)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Bailey
      
      Comrie
      
      Fernandez
      
      Gianaris
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Krueger
      
      Liu
      
      Mayer
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Stec
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      aye wr (2)
      
      Griffo
      
      Lanza
      
      excused (1)
      
      Gallivan

2025-S2673 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1675
Law Section:: Correction Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §9, Cor L; amd §3, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.4061-A & A.4763-A)

2025-S2673 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies that the department of corrections is not required to obtain and input into its electronic record-keeping applications any individual's otherwise uncollected former legal name or any alias; amends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating thereto.

2025-S2673 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S2673

SPONSOR: SALAZAR
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the correction law, in relation to clarifying that the
department of corrections is not required to obtain and input into its
electronic record-keeping applications any individual's otherwise uncol-
lected former legal name or any alias; and to amend a chapter of the
laws of 2024 amending the correction law relating to requiring that
websites providing incarcerated individual information be searchable by
the incarcerated individual's name, former name or alias, as proposed in
legislative bills numbers S. 4061-A and A. 4763-A, in relation to the
effectiveness thereof

 
PURPOSE:

This is a chapter amendment that makes changes to provisions of L.2024,
c.614.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

This legislation would require that information collected by the Depart-
ment of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) related to an
individual's current or former legal names and known aliases be input
into the "Incarcerated Lookup" public search website. It also ensures
that there is no requirement that the department collect additional
information related to former names or aliases and amends the underlying
bills, S. 4061-A and A. 4763-A, effective date to one year after becom-
ing law.

 
EXISTING LAW: Click here

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Pursuant to approval memo 55 of 2024, the Executive sought to ensure
that the underlying chapter's requirement that the public search func-
tion managed by the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
(DOCCS) "Incarcerated Lookup" include former legal name(s) or known
alias(es) would not require DOCCS to collect additional information
beyond what it currently gathers. This legislation is a negotiated
change to the underlying chapter that addresses those concerns.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

Chapter amendment to Chapter 614 of the Laws of 2024. S.4061-A passed
the Senate in June 2024 and A.4763-A passed the Assembly in March 2024.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

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LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

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EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that section
one of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the correction law
relating to requiring that websites providing incarcerated individual
information be searchable by the incarcerated individual's name, former
name or alias, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4061-A and A.
25 4763-A, takes effect.

2025-S2673 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2673
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to clarifying  that  the
   department of corrections is not required to obtain and input into its
   electronic  record-keeping  applications  any  individual's  otherwise
   uncollected former legal name or any alias; and to amend a chapter  of
   the  laws  of  2024  amending the correction law relating to requiring
   that websites providing incarcerated individual information be search-
   able by the incarcerated individual's name, former name or  alias,  as
   proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  S. 4061-A and A. 4763-A, in
   relation to the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 9 of the correction law, as amended by a chapter of
 the  laws of 2024 amending the correction law relating to requiring that
 websites providing incarcerated individual information be searchable  by
 the incarcerated individual's name, former name or alias, as proposed in
 section  2  of  legislative  bills  numbers  S. 4061-A and A. 4763-A, is
 amended to read as follows:
   § 9. Access to information of incarcerated individuals via the  inter-
 net.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any informa-
 tion relating to the conviction of a person that is posted on a  website
 maintained  by  or  for  the department, under article six of the public
 officers law, may be posted on such website for a period not  to  exceed
 three  years after the expiration of such person's sentence of imprison-
 ment and at the conclusion of  any  period  of  parole  or  post-release
 supervision;  provided  further,  however,  that  any  such website that
 allows the public to  search  for  incarcerated  individual  information
 shall  be  programmed in such a manner that the search may be successful
 by input of the incarcerated individual's current name, any former legal
 name or any other known alias of the  incarcerated  individual.  TO  THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02691-01-5

 S. 2673                             2
 
 EXTENT  THE  DEPARTMENT  COLLECTS  AN  INDIVIDUAL'S CURRENT NAME, FORMER
 LEGAL NAME, OR ANY KNOWN ALIAS FROM GOVERNMENT RECORDS UTILIZED  BY  THE
 DEPARTMENT,  THE  DEPARTMENT SHALL ENSURE THAT SUCH INFORMATION IS INPUT
 INTO  ANY  WEBSITE  CREATED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
 THAT NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO REQUIRE  THE  DEPART-
 MENT TO OBTAIN AND INPUT INTO THE DEPARTMENT'S ELECTRONIC RECORD-KEEPING
 APPLICATIONS ANY INDIVIDUAL'S OTHERWISE UNCOLLECTED FORMER LEGAL NAME OR
 ANY ALIAS.
   §  2.  Section  3  of  a  chapter  of  the  laws  of 2024 amending the
 correction law relating to requiring that websites providing incarcerat-
 ed individual information be searchable by the incarcerated individual's
 name, former name or alias, as proposed in legislative bills numbers  S.
 4061-A and A.  4763-A, is amended to read as follows:
   §  3. This act shall take effect [on the ninetieth day] ONE YEAR after
 it shall have become a law[; provided, however, that if chapter  631  of
 the laws of 2023 shall not have taken effect on or before such date then
 section  two  of  this act shall take effect on the same date and in the
 same manner as such chapter of the laws of 2023, takes effect].
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 section  one  of  this act shall take effect on the same date and in the
 same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the correction law
 relating to requiring that websites  providing  incarcerated  individual
 information  be searchable by the incarcerated individual's name, former
 name or alias, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4061-A and A.
 4763-A, takes effect.

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