STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4467--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, JAFFEE, FERNANDEZ, REYES, HEVESI, MOSLEY, BARRON, FINCH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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- 17 diction over the location where the incident is reported to have 18 occurred for the purposes of further investigation. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 20 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06560-06-9