Bill Text: NY S01243 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1243 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Provides that an individual who has been the victim of a family offense pursuant to the criminal procedure law or the family court act may make a complaint to any local law enforcement agency in the state regardless of where the act took place.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-08 - signed chap.152 [S01243 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01243-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1243
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 11, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- 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 the reporting of
          domestic 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 of a family offense as
     5  defined in subdivision one of section 530.11 of the  criminal  procedure
     6  law  or  section eight hundred twelve of the family court act may make a
     7  complaint to any local law enforcement agency in the state regardless of
     8  where the act took place. Such local law enforcement agency shall take a
     9  police report of the matter, as well as a domestic  incident  report  as
    10  defined  in subdivision fifteen of section eight hundred thirty-seven of
    11  this chapter and provide the complainant with a copy of such report free
    12  of charge. A copy of the police  report  and  domestic  incident  report
    13  shall  be forwarded to the law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over
    14  the location where the incident is reported to occur for the purposes of
    15  further investigation.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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