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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to recording certain law enforcement activities"
+description: "Relates to recording certain law enforcement activities; provides that a person not under arrest or in the custody of a law enforcement official has the right to record police activity and to maintain custody and control of that recording and of any property or instruments used by that person to record police activities, however, a person in custody or under arrest does not, by that status alone, forfeit such right to record."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "S 3253"
+citation: "New York S 3253 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["PARKER"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-02-05"
+last_action: "2020-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa0f24d5-2073-4894-8ac7-3add5ba74540"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S3253"
+source_hash: "0ee1bfeee68b216a684a36c280320766c9b9202cb47a66702ca4f3519c350c66"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York S 3253 (2019-2020) — Relates to recording certain law enforcement activities
+
+Relates to recording certain law enforcement activities; provides that a person not under arrest or in the custody of a law enforcement official has the right to record police activity and to maintain custody and control of that recording and of any property or instruments used by that person to record police activities, however, a person in custody or under arrest does not, by that status alone, forfeit such right to record.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S3253** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S3253&term=2019&Text=Y)
+2. **S3253A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/S3253A)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Vote — **128–16** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote - Version: A — **59–3** (pass) · upper
+- Rules Vote - Version: A — **18–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- PARKER — primary (person)
+- BAILEY — cosponsor (person)
+- BENJAMIN — cosponsor (person)
+- BIAGGI — cosponsor (person)
+- BRESLIN — cosponsor (person)
+- COMRIE — cosponsor (person)
+- HOYLMAN — cosponsor (person)
+- JACKSON — cosponsor (person)
+- KAVANAGH — cosponsor (person)
+- LIU — cosponsor (person)
+- MAY — cosponsor (person)
+- MONTGOMERY — cosponsor (person)
+- MYRIE — cosponsor (person)
+- RAMOS — cosponsor (person)
+- RIVERA — cosponsor (person)
+- SALAZAR — cosponsor (person)
+- SEPULVEDA — cosponsor (person)
+- SERRANO — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-05** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-08** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-10** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CODES `referral-committee, amendment-passage`
+- **2020-03-10** PRINT NUMBER 3253A `amendment-passage`
+- **2020-06-08** REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-08** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.678
+- **2020-06-08** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2020-06-08** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2020-06-08** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-08** SUBSTITUTED FOR A1360A
+- **2020-06-08** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.70
+- **2020-06-08** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2020-06-08** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2020-06-14** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-14** SIGNED CHAP.100 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa0f24d5-2073-4894-8ac7-3add5ba74540`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+