Bill Text: NY A06545 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to orders of protection expiration dates and the duration of temporary orders of protection in juvenile delinquency cases; requires expiration dates for orders of protection under certain articles of the family court act to be plainly stated; provides that a temporary order of protection in juvenile delinquency cases may remain in effect for an initial period of up to thirty days and may be extended by the court for good cause, upon notice to the juvenile; provides that the juvenile has a right to counsel upon the extension of the order of protection.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-15 - signed chap.402 [A06545 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06545-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6545

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 14, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DAVILA -- (at request of the Office of Court
          Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children
          and Families

        AN ACT to  amend  the  family  court  act,  in  relation  to  orders  of
          protection  expiration  dates  and  permissible  duration of temporary
          orders of protection in juvenile delinquency cases in family court

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 154-c of the family court act, as
     2  added by chapter 186 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. Expiration dates. Any order of protection  or  temporary  order  of
     4  protection  issued  under  articles three, four, five, six [and], seven,
     5  eight, ten and ten-A of this act shall plainly state the date that  such
     6  order expires.
     7    §  2. Subdivision 4 of section 304.2 of the family court act, as added
     8  by chapter 683 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
     9    (4) A temporary order of  protection  issued  or  extended  after  the
    10  filing of a petition under this article shall contain an expiration date
    11  and may remain in effect until an order of disposition is entered.
    12    a.  A  temporary  order  of protection issued prior to the filing of a
    13  petition under this article may remain in effect for an  initial  period
    14  of  up to thirty days and may be extended by the court for an additional
    15  period of up to thirty days upon good cause  or,  where  the  juvenile's
    16  case  is being adjusted pursuant to section 308.1 of this article, for a
    17  period coinciding with such adjustment.   If the  juvenile  successfully
    18  completes adjustment prior to the expiration of the order, the probation
    19  service, presentment agency or attorney for the child may move to vacate
    20  such temporary order of protection upon such successful completion.
    21    b.  A  temporary  order of protection issued under this section may be
    22  extended for one additional period of up to thirty days upon  a  finding
    23  by  the  court  of  a  compelling  reason.  Where  the case is not being

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09756-02-3

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     1  adjusted or where efforts to adjust the case have been terminated unsuc-
     2  cessfully, the court must also determine whether the presentment  agency
     3  has  made  diligent efforts to file the petition and the reasons for any
     4  delay.
     5    c. Any application for an extension of a temporary order of protection
     6  under this section shall be on notice to the juvenile, who shall have an
     7  opportunity  to  be  heard and shall have a right to counsel pursuant to
     8  section two hundred forty-nine of this act.
     9    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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