Bill Text: NY A10467 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10467 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prevents temporary questioning of person solely because such person is wearing a mask during a state emergency for an epidemic or pandemic.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-20 - ordered to third reading rules cal.207 [A10467 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10467-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10467

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 22, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Fernandez)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in  relation  to  preventing
          temporary  questioning of person solely because such person is wearing
          a mask during a state emergency for an epidemic or pandemic

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

     1    Section  1. Section 140.50 of the criminal procedure law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5. No person shall be subject to temporary questioning solely  because
     4  such  person  is wearing a mask during a state emergency for an epidemic
     5  or pandemic.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.








         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16271-01-0