Bill Text: NY S03587 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires hospitals to report all gunshot wounds within 1 hour of treatment and failure to do so results in a misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO CODES [S03587 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S03587-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3587
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 28, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  ADAMS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  requiring  hospitals  to
         report any gunshot injury to law enforcement within one hour of treat-
         ment
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 265.25 of the penal  law  is  amended  to  read  as
    2  follows:
    3  S 265.25 Certain wounds to be reported.
    4    1.  Every  case  of  a bullet wound, gunshot wound, powder burn or any
    5  other injury arising from or  caused  by  the  discharge  of  a  gun  or
    6  firearm,  and  every case of a wound which is likely to or may result in
    7  death and is actually or apparently inflicted by  a  knife,  icepick  or
    8  other  sharp  or  pointed  instrument,  shall be reported at once to the
    9  police authorities of the city, town or village where the person report-
   10  ing is located by: (a) the physician attending or treating the case;  or
   11  (b) the manager, superintendent or other person in charge, whenever such
   12  case  is treated in a hospital, sanitarium or other institution. Failure
   13  to make such report is a class A misdemeanor. This subdivision shall not
   14  apply to such wounds, burns or injuries received  by  a  member  of  the
   15  armed forces of the United States or the state of New York while engaged
   16  in the actual performance of duty.
   17    2.  WITHIN  ONE  HOUR  OF  CLASSIFYING ANY INJURY AS A GUNSHOT WOUND A
   18  HOSPITAL IS REQUIRED TO REPORT SUCH FINDING TO PROPER LAW ENFORCEMENT AS
   19  PRESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.   FAILURE  TO  MAKE  SUCH
   20  REPORT WITHIN ONE HOUR IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
   21    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   22  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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