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A5690 • 2025

Relates to reports by the office of special investigation

Relates to reports by the office of special investigation

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Sponsor
Jodi Giglio
Last action
2026-05-13
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

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Relates to reports by the office of special investigation

Relates to reports by the office of special investigation 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.

What This Bill Does

  • Relates to reports by the office of special investigation 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.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-13 Assembly

    HELD FOR CONSIDERATION IN CODES

  2. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CODES

  3. 2025-02-20 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CODES

Official Summary Text

Relates to reports by the office of special investigation
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.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          5690

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    February 20, 2025
                                       ___________

        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:

     1    Section  1. Subdivisions 2 and 6 of section 70-b of the executive law,
     2  as added by chapter 95 of the laws of  2020,  are  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    2.  The  attorney  general  has  investigative  authority and criminal
     5  jurisdiction under this section at the time of the death of  the  person
     6  and  the  attorney  general retains investigative authority and criminal
     7  jurisdiction over the incident unless the  attorney  general  determines
     8  that  such  incident  does not meet the requirements of this section. If
     9  the attorney general determines the incident does not meet the  require-
    10  ments for the attorney general to have investigative authority and crim-
    11  inal  jurisdiction pursuant to this section, the attorney general shall,
    12  [as soon as practicable] WITHIN SIXTY DAYS, provide  written  notice  of
    13  such  determination to the district attorney for the county in which the
    14  incident occurred.
    15    6. (a) For any incident under this  section,  the  office  of  special
    16  investigation  shall  issue  a  public report and post the report on its
    17  website whenever the office of special investigation initiates an inves-
    18  tigation and (i) the office of special investigation declines to present
    19  evidence to a grand jury or (ii) the  office  of  special  investigation
    20  does  present  evidence  to  a grand jury but the grand jury declines to
    21  return indictment on any charges. The report will include, to the extent
    22  possible and lawful, the results of the investigation of  the  incident.
    23  SUCH  REPORT  SHALL BE ISSUED WITHIN SIXTY DAYS OF THE INITIATION OF THE
    24  INVESTIGATION; PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERIOD MAY, FOR GOOD CAUSE  SHOWN,  BE
    25  EXTENDED FOR THIRTY DAY INTERVALS.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02115-01-5
        A. 5690                             2

     1    (b)  The  report  shall also include: (i) with respect to subparagraph
     2  (i) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision, an explanation as to  why  the
     3  office  of special investigation declined to present evidence to a grand
     4  jury; and (ii) any recommendations for systemic or other reforms arising
     5  from the investigation.
     6    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     7  have become a law.