Bill Text: NY S08916 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8916

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides for certain victim statements to be taken at their workplace instead of the police department where such workplace was the scene of the crime and is a hospital, emergency medical facility, nursing home or residential health care facility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-27 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S08916 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08916-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8916

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 27, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
          Correction

        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to providing for certain
          victim statements to be taken at their workplace instead of the police
          department

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

     1    Section 1. Section 642 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6.  Unless  a  victim  of  an assault in the second degree pursuant to
     4  section 120.05 of the penal law chooses to make  their  statement  at  a
     5  police  department,  as that term is defined in subdivision a of section
     6  eight hundred thirty-seven-c of  this  chapter,  such  victim  shall  be
     7  interviewed  by  the  police in their workplace providing such workplace
     8  was the scene of the crime and is a hospital, emergency medical  facili-
     9  ty,  nursing  home,  or  residential  health care facility as defined in
    10  section twenty-eight hundred one of the  public  health  law,  or  is  a
    11  facility  or  hospital  as defined in section 1.03 of the mental hygiene
    12  law.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    14  it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14653-01-4