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Home/Bills/S 1664New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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S 1664: Provides access to live scan fingerprinting to society for the prevention of cruelty to animals officers.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified May 8, 2026

What S 1664 does, verified May 8, 2026

The bill aims to provide Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) officers with the ability to access live scan fingerprinting systems independently. This change will enable SPCA officers to complete arrests without assistance from other law enforcement personnel. The bill will take effect 180 days after it becomes a law.

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✓IntroducedComplete
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✓First Chamber FloorComplete
4Second ChamberCurrent
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: referred to codes (2026-05-05)Alert me
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Patricia Canzoneri-FitzpatrickPatrick GallivanPamela HelmingMario MatteraAnthony PalumboRob RolisonJames TediscoDean MurrayChris RyanLea WebbGeorge Borrello
Recent actions16 total · showing 5
May. 05, 2026referred to codes
May. 05, 2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
May. 05, 2026PASSED SENATE
Mar. 26, 2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
Mar. 25, 20262ND REPORT CAL.
Full action history, 11 earlier actionsConnect Plus
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 13, 2025 · 255 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1664 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 13, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, GALLIVAN, HELMING, MATTERA, PALUMBO, ROLISON, TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to providing access to live scan fingerprinting to society for the prevention of cruelty to animals officers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 160.10 of the criminal procedure law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 3 1-a. Following an arrest by a society for the prevention of cruelty to 4 animals officer, such officer shall be permitted access to the live scan 5 fingerprinting system or similar technology in order to effectuate the 6 completion of such arrest independently and without the assistance of 7 other law enforcement personnel. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 9 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 10 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 11 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 12 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03883-01-5 
Text of S 1664 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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