Bill Text: NY A05712 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits a social worker, rape crisis counselor, or other professional to provide emotional support to a vulnerable elderly person testifying in certain grand jury proceedings provided that the district attorney consents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A05712 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05712-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5712
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, ABBATE, GUNTHER -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.  CAHILL, COLTON, COOK,  CYMBROWITZ,  GALEF,  GOTTFRIED,
          RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
        AN  ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to permitting a
          social worker or other professional to provide emotional support to  a
          vulnerable elderly person testifying in certain grand jury proceedings
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 190.25 of the  criminal  procedure
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:
     3    (i)  A  social  worker,  rape  crisis counselor, psychologist or other
     4  professional providing emotional support to a vulnerable elderly person,
     5  as that term is defined in subdivision three of section  260.31  of  the
     6  penal  law,  as added by chapter three hundred eighty-one of the laws of
     7  nineteen hundred ninety-eight, who is called to give evidence in a grand
     8  jury proceeding, concerning any  type  of  offense,  provided  that  the
     9  district  attorney  consents.  Such support person shall not provide the
    10  witness with an answer to any question or otherwise participate in  such
    11  proceeding and shall first take an oath before the grand jury that he or
    12  she  will  keep  secret all matters before such grand jury within his or
    13  her knowledge.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    15  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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