Bill Text: NY A06826 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires private investigators to notify the state police when they are employed by a foreign government or foreign national; requires the state police to maintain a registry of all private investigators who have been employed by a foreign government or foreign national.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to economic development [A06826 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06826-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6826

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Economic Development

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  business law, in relation to requiring
          private investigators  to  notify  the  state  police  when  they  are
          employed by a foreign government or foreign national and requiring the
          state  police  to maintain a registry of all private investigators who
          have been employed by a foreign government or foreign national

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 70 of the general business law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     3    3-a.  Upon  the  issuance  of  a  private  investigator license or the
     4  renewal of a private investigator license pursuant to this article,  the
     5  department  of  state  shall  notify  the licensee that such licensee is
     6  required to inform the state police when he or  she  is  employed  by  a
     7  foreign  government  or  foreign national. Such notification shall be in
     8  addition to any requirement under federal law  regarding  an  individual
     9  operating at the direction of a foreign government.
    10    §  2. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 88-a
    11  to read as follows:
    12    § 88-a. Private investigator registry. The superintendent of the state
    13  police shall maintain a registry of private  investigators  licensed  in
    14  the  state  pursuant  to  this article who have been employed by foreign
    15  nationals and foreign governments. Such registry shall only be  open  to
    16  the  attorney  general  and  members  of the state police. Such registry
    17  shall include:
    18    1. the name of the private investigator;
    19    2. the business name associated with the private investigator;
    20    3. the address at which such business is registered;
    21    4. the name and business name of the client; and
    22    5. the address of the client.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10882-01-3
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     1    § 3. This act shall take effect six months after it shall have  become
     2  a  law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment, and/or repeal of
     3  any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this  act  on
     4  its  effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before
     5  such effective date.