New York 2025 Session Status: Passed Assembly

A8022 — Requires certain covered platforms to provide a process for law enforcement agencies to contact such platform, and to comply with search warrants within seventy-two hours

Last action — Passed Senate

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Assembly
  4. 4
    Passed Senate
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has passed the Assembly. Introduced April 22, 2025. It now moves to the second chamber.

Next likely step: consideration and a floor vote in the Senate.

Prognosis

Stalled 26% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

How often bills like it became law.

  • Passed Assembly

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

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In plain language

The bill requires large platforms to facilitate law enforcement contacts and respond to search warrants quickly.

This legislation mandates that platforms with over a million users create an accessible process for law enforcement to reach them. It also requires these platforms to comply with search warrants within seventy-two hours, with possible extensions in extraordinary cases.

What this means for you
  • Workers: This could lead to more efficient law enforcement investigations, potentially impacting workplace safety and security.

Summary

Requires an operator of a covered platform with at least one million users to ensure that its covered platform provides a process to allow law enforcement agencies to contact such covered platform, which shall provide continuous availability of such process; provides that an operator of a covered platform with at least one million users shall comply with a search warrant within seventy-two hours of receipt under certain circumstances; provides that a court may extend the time for compliance with a search warrant under certain circumstances.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

  2. PASSED SENATE

  3. 3RD READING CAL.1723

  4. SUBSTITUTED FOR S8217B

  5. REFERRED TO CODES

  6. DELIVERED TO SENATE

  7. PASSED ASSEMBLY

  8. ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.247

  9. REPORTED

  10. PRINT NUMBER 8022A

  11. AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CODES

  12. REFERRED TO CODES

  13. REFERRED TO CODES

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 218 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (218)

218 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Subjects

public-safety technology
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Frequently asked questions

What does A8022 do?
Requires an operator of a covered platform with at least one million users to ensure that its covered platform provides a process to allow law enforcement agencies to contact such covered platform, which shall provide continuous availability of such process; provides that an operator of a covered platform with at least one million users shall comply with a search warrant within seventy-two hours of receipt under certain circumstances; provides that a court may extend the time for compliance with a search warrant under certain circumstances.
Who sponsors A8022?
A8022 is sponsored by Phil Steck.
What is the current status of A8022?
This bill has passed the Assembly. Introduced April 22, 2025. It now moves to the second chamber.
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