Bill Text: NY S07041 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the appointing of special assistant district attorneys who are employees of the justice center for the protection of people with special needs to prosecute cases from the justice center in supreme court.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S07041 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07041-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7041--A
            Cal. No. 1132
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 3, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
          mental Disabilities -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered
          to first and second report, amended on second  report,  ordered  to  a
          third  reading, and to be reprinted as amended, retaining its place in
          the order of third reading
        AN ACT to amend the  county  law,  in  relation  to  appointing  special
          assistant district attorneys who are employees of the justice center
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 702 of the county law is amended by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     3    8.   Notwithstanding any provision of law with respect to requirements
     4  of residence or number of appointments, a district attorney in any coun-
     5  ty, including any county within a city with a population of one  million
     6  or  more,  shall  appoint  one or more attorneys employed by the justice
     7  center for the protection  of  people  with  special  needs  as  special
     8  assistant district attorneys with respect to any investigation or prose-
     9  cution  of offenses involving abuse or neglect as defined in subdivision
    10  eleven of section four hundred eighty-eight of the social  services  law
    11  committed  against vulnerable persons by custodians as defined in subdi-
    12  vision two of section four hundred eighty-eight of the  social  services
    13  law.  Such  special  assistant district attorneys shall receive no addi-
    14  tional compensation and shall be charged with all the duties and respon-
    15  sibilities of a justice center  special  prosecutor  as  established  in
    16  article twenty of the executive law.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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