Bill Text: NY S00976 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes a court issuing a non-family offense temporary order of protection or an order of protection to direct that such order be filed with the computerized registry for orders of protection and warrants, if it is necessary to fulfill the purposes of such order; directs the superintendent of state police to include such orders on computerized registry.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-12 - COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES [S00976 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S00976-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
       ________________________________________________________________________
                                          976
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sens.  HASSELL-THOMPSON, DIAZ, KRUEGER -- read twice and
         ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
         Codes
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the criminal procedure law and the executive law, in
         relation to authorizing a court to file non-family  offense  temporary
         orders  of  protection  and orders of protection with the computerized
         registry established for such information
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision 5 of section 530.13 of the criminal procedure
    2  law, as amended by chapter 462 of the laws of 2002, is amended  to  read
    3  as follows:
    4    5.  The court shall inquire as to the existence of any other orders of
    5  protection between the defendant and the person or persons for whom  the
    6  order  of protection is sought. An order of protection issued under this
    7  section shall plainly state the date that such order expires. Orders  of
    8  protection issued to protect victims of domestic violence, as defined in
    9  section  four  hundred fifty-nine-a of the social services law, shall be
   10  on uniform statewide forms that shall be promulgated by the chief admin-
   11  istrator of the courts in a manner to ensure the compatibility  of  such
   12  forms  with  the statewide registry of orders of protection and warrants
   13  established pursuant to section two hundred twenty-one-a of  the  execu-
   14  tive  law.  A  copy  of  an  order of protection or a temporary order of
   15  protection issued pursuant to subdivision one, two, three,  or  four  of
   16  this section shall be filed by the clerk of the court with the sheriff's
   17  office  in the county in which such victim or victims reside, or, if the
   18  victim or victims reside within a city, with the  police  department  of
   19  such  city,  AND SHALL BE FILED WITH THE COMPUTERIZED REGISTRY OF ORDERS
   20  OF PROTECTION AND ARREST WARRANTS ESTABLISHED PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  TWO
   21  HUNDRED  TWENTY-ONE-A  OF  THE  EXECUTIVE LAW WHERE THE COURT DETERMINES
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03312-01-1
       S. 976                              2
    1  THAT SUCH FILING IS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT THE PURPOSES OF SUCH ORDER.  A
    2  copy of such order of protection or temporary order  of  protection  may
    3  from  time  to  time  be  filed by the clerk of the court with any other
    4  police  department  or sheriff's office having jurisdiction of the resi-
    5  dence, work place, and school of anyone intended to be protected by such
    6  order. A copy of the order may also be filed by the victim or victims at
    7  the appropriate police department or sheriff's office  having  jurisdic-
    8  tion.  Any  subsequent  amendment  or  revocation of such order shall be
    9  filed in the same manner as herein provided.
   10    S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 221-a of the executive law, as separate-
   11  ly amended by sections 14 and 67 of part A of chapter 56 of the laws  of
   12  2010, is amended to read as follows:
   13    1.  The  superintendent, in consultation with the division of criminal
   14  justice services, office of court administration, and the office for the
   15  prevention of domestic violence, shall develop a comprehensive plan  for
   16  the  establishment  and maintenance of a statewide computerized registry
   17  of all orders of protection issued pursuant to articles four, five,  six
   18  and eight of the family court act, section 530.12 of the criminal proce-
   19  dure  law  and,  insofar as they involve victims of domestic violence as
   20  defined by section four hundred fifty-nine-a of the social services law,
   21  section 530.13 of the criminal procedure law and  sections  two  hundred
   22  forty  and two hundred fifty-two of the domestic relations law AND THOSE
   23  ORDERS OF PROTECTION WHICH A COURT ORDERS FILED WITH THE REGISTRY PURSU-
   24  ANT TO SUBDIVISION FIVE OF SECTION 530.13 OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW,
   25  AND ANY WARRANT ARISING THEREFROM, and orders of  protection  issued  by
   26  courts of competent jurisdiction in another state, territorial or tribal
   27  jurisdiction,  special  orders of conditions issued pursuant to subpara-
   28  graph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (o) of subdivision one of section  330.20
   29  of  the  criminal  procedure  law  insofar  as  they involve a victim or
   30  victims of domestic violence as defined by subdivision  one  of  section
   31  four  hundred  fifty-nine-a  of  the social services law or a designated
   32  witness or witnesses to such domestic violence, and all warrants  issued
   33  pursuant  to  sections one hundred fifty-three and eight hundred twenty-
   34  seven of the family court act, and arrest and bench warrants as  defined
   35  in  subdivisions twenty-eight, twenty-nine and thirty of section 1.20 of
   36  the criminal procedure law, insofar as such warrants pertain  to  orders
   37  of protection or temporary orders of protection; provided, however, that
   38  warrants issued pursuant to section one hundred fifty-three of the fami-
   39  ly court act pertaining to articles three, seven and ten of such act and
   40  section  530.13  of the criminal procedure law EXCEPT AS PROVIDED FOR IN
   41  THIS SUBDIVISION shall not be included in the registry. The  superinten-
   42  dent  shall  establish  and  maintain  such registry for the purposes of
   43  ascertaining the existence of orders of protection, temporary orders  of
   44  protection, warrants and special orders of conditions, and for enforcing
   45  the provisions of paragraph (b) of subdivision four of section 140.10 of
   46  the criminal procedure law.
   47    S  3. This act shall take effect on the first of October next succeed-
   48  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
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