Bill Text: NY A05588 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that a person to whom a child witness has initially disclosed evidence concerning a crime and who provides emotional support, including but not limited to, a professional counselor or family member, may be present during certain proceedings of a grand jury.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-17 - held for consideration in codes [A05588 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05588-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5588 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 13, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MANKTELOW, WALSH, DeSTEFANO, GIGLIO, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. STEC -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to grand jury proceedings and operation The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 3 of section 190.25 of the 2 criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 347 of the laws of 2014, 3 is amended to read as follows: 4 (h) A social worker, rape crisis counselor, psychologist [or other], 5 professional [providing] or other person to whom a child witness has 6 initially disclosed evidence concerning a crime as defined in this para- 7 graph, and who provides emotional support to a child witness twelve 8 years old or younger, or a social worker or informal caregiver, as 9 provided in subdivision two of section two hundred six of the elder law, 10 for a vulnerable elderly person as provided in subdivision three of 11 section 260.31 of the penal law, who is called to give evidence in a 12 grand jury proceeding concerning a crime defined in article one hundred 13 twenty-one, article one hundred thirty, article two hundred sixty, 14 section 120.10, 125.10, 125.15, 125.20, 125.25, 125.26, 125.27, 255.25, 15 255.26 or 255.27 of the penal law provided that the district attorney 16 consents. Such support person shall not provide the witness with an 17 answer to any question or otherwise participate in such proceeding and 18 shall first take an oath before the grand jury that he or she will keep 19 secret all matters before such grand jury within his or her knowledge. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 21 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08842-01-9