Bill Text: NY A01369 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires counseling for minor victims of a sex offense and the parent or guardian of such victims.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-08 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A01369 Detail]
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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1369
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 12, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to mandatory counseling
for minor victims of a sex offense and the parent or guardian of such
victims
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 625 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
3 2-A. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE, AND
4 WITHOUT REGARD TO THE FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY OF THE CLAIMANT, A VICTIM OF
5 A SEX OFFENSE, AS SUCH SEX OFFENSE IS DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED
6 THIRTY OF THE PENAL LAW, AND THE PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF SUCH VICTIM IF
7 SUCH VICTIM IS A MINOR, SHALL OBTAIN COUNSELING FROM A PSYCHIATRIST OR
8 LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST PRIOR TO FILING A CLAIM FOR RECEIPT OF AN AWARD
9 PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE. A LETTER ISSUED FROM SUCH VICTIM'S TREATING
10 PSYCHIATRIST OR LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST SHALL BE FILED ALONG WITH SUCH
11 VICTIM'S CLAIM.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05163-01-5
