Bill Text: NY S05328 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to a training course and curriculum on the handling, investigation and response procedures concerning reports of domestic violence; requires law enforcement and judicial employees to participate in such training; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S05328 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05328-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5328

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 2, 2023
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        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to a training course and
          curriculum on the  handling,  investigation  and  response  procedures
          concerning reports of domestic violence

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

     1    Section 1. Section 837 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 24 to read as follows:
     3    24. (a) (i) The division shall develop and approve a  training  course
     4  and  curriculum  on  the handling, investigation and response procedures
     5  concerning reports  of  domestic  violence.  This  training  course  and
     6  curriculum  shall  be  reviewed at least every two years and modified by
     7  the division from time to time as need may require. The  division  shall
     8  distribute the curriculum to all local police agencies.
     9    (ii)  The  attorney general shall be responsible for ensuring that all
    10  law enforcement officers attend initial training within ninety  days  of
    11  appointment  or  transfer and annual inservice training of at least four
    12  hours as described in this section.
    13    (b) (i) The chief  administrator  of  the  courts  shall  develop  and
    14  approve  a  training  course  and a curriculum on the handling, investi-
    15  gation  and  response  procedures  concerning  allegations  of  domestic
    16  violence.  This  training  course  shall  be reviewed at least every two
    17  years and modified by the chief judge from time  to  time  as  need  may
    18  require.
    19    (ii)  The  chief  administrator of the courts shall be responsible for
    20  ensuring that all judges and judicial personnel attend initial  training
    21  within  ninety  days  of  appointment  or  transfer and annual inservice
    22  training as described in this section.
    23    (iii) The division and the chief administrator  of  the  courts  shall
    24  provide  that  all training on the handling of domestic violence matters

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09757-01-3
        S. 5328                             2

     1  shall include information concerning the impact of domestic violence  on
     2  society,  the  dynamics of domestic violence, the statutory and case law
     3  concerning domestic violence, the necessary  elements  of  a  protection
     4  order, policies and procedures as promulgated or ordered by the attorney
     5  general  or  the  court  of  appeals, and the use of available community
     6  resources, support services, available sanctions and treatment  options.
     7  Law  enforcement  agencies shall: (1) establish domestic crisis teams or
     8  participate in established domestic crisis teams, and  (2)  shall  train
     9  individual  officers  in methods of dealing with domestic violence.  The
    10  teams may include social workers, clergy or  other  persons  trained  in
    11  counseling,   crisis  intervention  or  in  the  treatment  of  domestic
    12  violence.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    14  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    15  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    16  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    17  completed on or before such effective date.