STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9722 IN SENATE May 22, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- (at request of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision) -- 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 electronic transmittal of the governor's warrant The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 570.18 of the criminal procedure law is amended to 2 read as follows: 3 § 570.18 Issuance of warrant of arrest by governor; recitals therein. 4 If the governor decides that the demand should be complied with, [he] 5 the governor shall sign a warrant of arrest, which shall be sealed with 6 the state seal, and be directed to any police officer or other person 7 whom [he] the governor may think fit to entrust with the execution ther- 8 eof. The warrant must substantially recite the facts necessary to the 9 validity of its issuance. Any electronically or electromagnetically 10 transmitted facsimile of a governor's warrant shall be treated as an 11 original document. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14691-01-4