Assembly Bill A3440

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires counseling for minor victims of a sex offense and the parent or guardian of such victims

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A3440 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §625, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A2728
2013-2014: A1999
2015-2016: A1369
2017-2018: A1469
2019-2020: A1253

2009-A3440 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires counseling for minor victims of a sex offense and the parent or guardian of such victims.

2009-A3440 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3440

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 27, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Operations

AN  ACT  to amend the executive law, in relation to mandatory counseling
  for minor victims of a sex offense and the parent or guardian of  such
  victims

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 625 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
  2-A. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF THIS  ARTICLE,  AND
WITHOUT  REGARD TO THE FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY OF THE CLAIMANT, A VICTIM OF
A SEX OFFENSE, AS SUCH SEX OFFENSE IS DEFINED  IN  ARTICLE  ONE  HUNDRED
THIRTY  OF  THE  PENAL LAW, AND THE PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF SUCH VICTIM IF
SUCH VICTIM IS A MINOR, SHALL OBTAIN COUNSELING FROM A  PSYCHIATRIST  OR
LICENSED  PSYCHOLOGIST  PRIOR  TO FILING A CLAIM FOR RECEIPT OF AN AWARD
PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE. A LETTER ISSUED FROM  SUCH  VICTIM'S  TREATING
PSYCHIATRIST  OR  LICENSED  PSYCHOLOGIST  SHALL BE FILED ALONG WITH SUCH
VICTIM'S CLAIM.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06895-01-9

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