Bill Text: NY S07739 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts Detective Brian Simonsen's law; requires police officers report stolen cellphones to wireless telephone service providers who must then disable such stolen cellphones.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-15 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S07739 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07739-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7739

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    November 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the executive law  and  the  general  business  law,  in
          relation  to  requiring  wireless  telephone service providers disable
          stolen cellphones

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

     1    Section  1.  Short title.  This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "Detective Brian Simonsen's law".
     3    § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a  new  section  845-e  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  845-e.  Notification  of  stolen  wireless  telephone. Whenever any
     6  police officer designated in section 1.20 of the criminal procedure  law
     7  or a peace officer designated in section 2.10 of such law, acting pursu-
     8  ant to his or her special duties, is made aware a wireless telephone has
     9  been stolen or is believed to have been stolen, such officer shall noti-
    10  fy  the  business  entity  which  was  providing such wireless telephone
    11  services and have such services discontinued.
    12    § 3. The general business law is amended by adding a new section  399-
    13  eee to read as follows:
    14    §  399-eee.  Disabling  of  stolen  wireless  telephones. Whenever any
    15  police officer designated in section 1.20 of the criminal procedure  law
    16  or a peace officer designated in section 2.10 of such law, acting pursu-
    17  ant  to  his  or her special duties, notifies any person, firm, partner-
    18  ship, association, limited  liability  company,  corporation,  or  other
    19  business  entity  providing wireless telephone services, as such term is
    20  defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of  section  twelve  hundred
    21  twenty-five-c  of  the  vehicle  and traffic law, that a telephone using
    22  such business entity's wireless telephone services has been stolen, such
    23  business entity shall cease wireless telephone services to  such  stolen
    24  telephone.
    25    §  4.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    26  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11814-01-3