Bill Text: NY A03958 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes courts of record, upon receiving reports of violations, from or on behalf of the protected person, to issue bench warrants for the arrest of persons alleged to have violated an order of protection or temporary order of protection.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to judiciary [A03958 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03958-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3958
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 28, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Judiciary
       AN  ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to authorizing courts to
         issue bench warrants for criminal contempt of orders of protection
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 750 of the judiciary law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision D to read as follows:
    3    D.  IN CONNECTION WITH A REPORT TO A COURT OF RECORD OF A VIOLATION OF
    4  AN ORDER OF PROTECTION OR TEMPORARY ORDER OF PROTECTION MADE  BY  OR  ON
    5  BEHALF  OF  THE  PERSON  FOR  WHOSE PROTECTION THE ORDER WAS ISSUED, THE
    6  COURT MAY ISSUE A BENCH WARRANT FOR THE ARREST OF THE ALLEGED VIOLATOR.
    7    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05031-01-5