Senate Bill S501

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to reports by the office of special investigation

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Current 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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2025-S501 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §70-b, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S8858

2025-S501 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the office of special investigation to conclude investigations into alleged criminal offenses committed by police officers resulting in a death and issue a report within sixty days.

2025-S501 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    501
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 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

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02115-01-5

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