Provides for the submission of expended projectiles and shell casings and guns to the state police pistol and revolver ballistic identification electronic databank

Title of bill

An act to amend the executive law, in relation to the compilation of firearm and ballistic data

Purpose

This bill will require that any expended projectile, expended shell casing or gun seized, found or otherwise coming into possession of any state or local law enforcement agency be submitted to the division of state police, to be entered in the automated electronic databank.

Summary of provisions

Section 1 of this bill amends subdivision 4 of section 230 of the executive law by adding paragraphs (b) and (c). Paragraph (b) sets forth the submission requirements being placed on state and local law enforcement agencies of the division of the state police. Paragraph (c) requires that materials submitted must be done so within thirty days of coming into the possession of a state or local law enforcement agency.

Section 2 is the effective date for this bill.

Justification

Currently, local law enforcement agencies are not required to submit evidence to a centralized crime laboratory. Requiring agencies to do so would facilitate the exchange of information, increasing the effectiveness of both the labs and the local law enforcement agencies. Requiring submission of certain materials to a crime laboratory and entry into a computerized ballistic system will allow these materials to be cross-checked with previously entered materials.

Legislative history

2006 Referred to Finance 2007 Referred to Finance 2008 Referred to Finance

Fiscal implications

To be determined.

Effective date

This act shall take effect on the 120th day after it shall have become law.