Bill Text: NY S01243 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that an individual who has been the victim of a family offense pursuant to the criminal procedure law or the family court act may make a complaint to any local law enforcement agency in the state regardless of where the act took place.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-08 - signed chap.152 [S01243 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01243-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1243--B
            Cal. No. 676

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sens. CARLUCCI, BIAGGI, BOYLE, COMRIE, GOUNARDES, HARCK-
          HAM, KAPLAN, RIVERA, SKOUFIS -- read twice and  ordered  printed,  and
          when  printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime
          and  Correction  --  committee  discharged,  bill   amended,   ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee -- reported
          favorably from said  committee  and  committed  to  the  Committee  on
          Finance -- committee discharged and said bill committed to the Commit-
          tee  on  Rules -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to a
          third reading,  passed  by  Senate  and  delivered  to  the  Assembly,
          recalled,  vote  reconsidered,  restored to third reading, amended and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the executive law,  in  relation  to  the  reporting  of
          domestic violence incidents

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

     1    Section 1. Section 646 of the executive law, as amended by chapter 346
     2  of the laws of 2007, is amended by adding a new subdivision 3 to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. An individual who has been the victim in this  state  of  a  family
     5  offense  as defined in subdivision one of section 530.11 of the criminal
     6  procedure law or section eight hundred twelve of the  family  court  act
     7  may,  upon  alleging  that it would be a hardship for him or her to make
     8  such complaint in the local jurisdiction in which such offense occurred,
     9  make a complaint to any  local  law  enforcement  agency  in  the  state
    10  regardless of where the act took place. Such local law enforcement agen-
    11  cy shall take a police report of the matter, as well as prepare a domes-
    12  tic  violence  incident  report  as  defined  in  subdivision fifteen of
    13  section eight hundred thirty-seven  of  this  chapter  and  provide  the
    14  complainant  with  a  copy  of such report free of charge. A copy of the
    15  police report and completed domestic violence incident report  shall  be
    16  promptly forwarded to the appropriate law enforcement agency with juris-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  diction  over  the  location  where  the  incident  is  reported to have
     2  occurred for the purposes of further investigation.
     3    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.