Bill Text: NY A06298 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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 11-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A06298 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A06298-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6298 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 2, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, ABBATE, GUNTHER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CAHILL, COLTON, COOK, CYMBROWITZ, GALEF, GOTTFRIED, MAGEE, 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. LBD03336-01-7