S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 19, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Operations
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to the definition of
         qualified agencies
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  9  of  section  835 of the executive law, as
    2  amended by section 102 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the  laws
    3  of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
    4    9.  "Qualified agencies" means courts in the unified court system, the
    5  administrative board of the judicial conference, probation  departments,
    6  sheriffs'  offices, district attorneys' offices, the state department of
    7  corrections and community supervision, the department of  correction  of
    8  any municipality, the insurance frauds bureau of the state department of
    9  insurance,  the  office  of  professional  medical  conduct of the state
   10  department of health for the purposes of section two hundred  thirty  of
   11  the  public  health  law,  the child protective services unit of a local
   12  social services district when conducting an  investigation  pursuant  to
   13  subdivision  six  of  section  four  hundred  twenty-four  of the social
   14  services law, the office of Medicaid inspector  general,  the  temporary
   15  state commission of investigation, the criminal investigations bureau of
   16  the  banking  department, police forces and departments having responsi-
   17  bility for enforcement of the general criminal laws of the state and the
   18  Onondaga County Center for  Forensic  Sciences  Laboratory  when  acting
   19  within  the  scope  of  its law enforcement duties AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS,
   20  LEGAL AID SOCIETIES, AND ASSIGNED COUNSEL ADMINISTRATORS.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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