New York Assembly Bill 851 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-01-08 - referred to codes
Pending: Assembly Codes Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Authorizes the people in a criminal proceeding, the presentment agency in a juvenile delinquency proceeding and a governmental agency or public employer in a civil enforcement action to move to protect the identity, address and any other identifying information of any witness who is an undercover public officer or employee when the disclosure of the identity of such officer or employee would endanger the officer's life or employee's life or compromise his or her continued effectiveness.

Authorizes the people in a criminal proceeding, the presentment agency in a juvenile delinquency proceeding and a governmental agency or public employer in a civil enforcement action to move to protect the identity, address and any other identifying information of any witness who is an undercover public officer or employee when the disclosure of the identity of such officer or employee would endanger the officer's life or employee's life or compromise his or her continued effectiveness.

Asm. Aravella Simotas [D]

Asm. William Colton [D]

Asm. Michael Montesano [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-08	Assembly	referred to codes
2019-01-11	Assembly	referred to codes

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/A851
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A00851&term=2019&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A00851