A 8263 New York Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Relates to requiring training of police department and state police personnel on the protocols of the address confidentiality program

Summary

Requires the secretary of state to develop and mandate training of police department personnel and state police officers on the protocols of the address confidentiality program.

Issues: ✓ Criminal Justice

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

May 2025

Committee Review

May 2026

Assembly Passage

May 2026

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced May 5, 2025 Last action May 6, 2026

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What changed between versions

A8263A → A8263B · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was amended to expand the training requirement for the Address Confidentiality Program from state police officers to all police officers, including local departments. It also updated the reporting requirements to include local police training completion dates and mandated that in-service training for all police be conducted once every three years.

Scope change

The scope of the training mandate was expanded from state police only to include all police officers and local police departments.

REQUIREMENT

Training requirements were expanded to apply to all police officers, not just state police officers.

A new requirement was added for in-service police training to be conducted once every three years.

ENFORCEMENT

Compliance reporting was updated to require confirmation from the Division of Criminal Justice Services regarding all police departments, not just state police.

TIMELINE

The training frequency for in-service programs was set to a recurring cycle of once every three years.

Floor votes · Assembly May 6, 2026

How they voted

130–9

Passed · 10 other

Total votes 149

May 6, 2026

D Democratic102

96 Yea 6

94% Yea

R Republican47

34 Yea 9 Nay 4

72% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

May 6, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO CODES

upper

May 6, 2026

Lower · Passed

PASSED ASSEMBLY

lower

Apr 17, 2026

Lower · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 8263B

lower

Apr 17, 2026

Lower · Passed

AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO WAYS AND MEANS

lower

Jan 7, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

lower

Dec 8, 2025

Lower · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 8263A

lower

Dec 8, 2025

Lower · Passed

AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO WAYS AND MEANS

lower

May 28, 2025

Committee

REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

lower

May 5, 2025

Committee

REFERRED TO CODES

lower

1 primary · 11 co-sponsors