Bill Text: NY A09327 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for certain victim statements to be taken at their workplace instead of the police department where such workplace was the scene of the crime and is a hospital, emergency medical facility, nursing home or residential health care facility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-22 - reported referred to rules [A09327 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09327-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9327

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 29, 2024
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        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to providing for  certain
          victim statements to be taken at their workplace instead of the police
          department

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 642 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. Unless a victim of an assault in  the  second  degree  pursuant  to
     4  section  120.05  of  the  penal law chooses to make their statement at a
     5  police department, as that term is defined in subdivision a  of  section
     6  eight  hundred  thirty-seven-c  of  this  chapter,  such victim shall be
     7  interviewed by the police in their workplace  providing  such  workplace
     8  was  the scene of the crime and is a hospital, emergency medical facili-
     9  ty, nursing home, or residential health  care  facility  as  defined  in
    10  section  twenty-eight  hundred  one  of  the  public health law, or is a
    11  facility or hospital as defined in section 1.03 of  the  mental  hygiene
    12  law.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    14  it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14653-01-4