Bill Text: NY S05832 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to grand jury proceedings and operation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-30 - referred to codes [S05832 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05832-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        5832--A
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 5, 2015
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       Introduced  by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       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 emotional support to a child witness twelve years
    6  old or younger, or a social worker or informal caregiver, as provided in
    7  subdivision two of section two hundred six  of  the  elder  law,  for  a
    8  vulnerable  elderly  person  as provided in subdivision three of section
    9  260.31 of the penal law, who is called to give evidence in a grand  jury
   10  proceeding concerning a crime defined in article one hundred twenty-one,
   11  article one hundred thirty, ARTICLES ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE, ONE HUNDRED
   12  FIFTY-SIX,  ONE  HUNDRED  FIFTY-EIGHT,  ONE  HUNDRED  SIXTY, ONE HUNDRED
   13  SIXTY-FIVE,  article  two  hundred  sixty,  [section]  SECTIONS  120.10,
   14  125.10,  125.15, 125.20, 125.25, 125.26, 125.27, 190.78, 190.79, 190.80,
   15  190.80-A, 190.81, 190.82, 190.83, 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27 of the  penal
   16  law  provided  that  the district attorney consents. Such support person
   17  shall not provide the witness with an answer to any question  or  other-
   18  wise  participate in such proceeding and shall first take an oath before
   19  the grand jury that he or she will keep secret all matters  before  such
   20  grand jury within his or her knowledge.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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