A7896 • 2025

Relates to the introduction and use of business records in grand jury proceedings

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Alex Bores
Last action: 2026-04-27
Official status: Assembly Floor Calendar
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to the introduction and use of business records in grand jury proceedings

Relates to the introduction and use of business records in grand jury proceedings Provides that any writing or record made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, may be received in grand jury proceedings as evidence of proof that such act, transaction, occurrence or event, if it was made in the regular course of any business.

What This Bill Does

Relates to the introduction and use of business records in grand jury proceedings Provides that any writing or record made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, may be received in grand jury proceedings as evidence of proof that such act, transaction, occurrence or event, if it was made in the regular course of any business.

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Bill History

2026-04-27 Assembly
SUBSTITUTED BY S9758
2026-04-23 Assembly
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.357
2026-04-21 Assembly
REPORTED
2026-03-26 Assembly
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CODES
2026-03-26 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 7896A
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO CODES
2025-04-11 Assembly
REFERRED TO CODES

Official Summary Text

Relates to the introduction and use of business records in grand jury proceedings
Provides that any writing or record made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, may be received in grand jury proceedings as evidence of proof that such act, transaction, occurrence or event, if it was made in the regular course of any business.

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

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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10861-01-5