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Senate Bill S22

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires hospitals to report all gunshot wounds within 1 hour of treatment and failure to do so results in a misdemeanor

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2009-S22 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง265.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S3587
2013-2014: S2981

2009-S22 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires hospitals to report all gunshot wounds within 1 hour of treatment and failure to do so results in a misdemeanor.

2009-S22 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S22 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                   22

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  ADAMS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  requiring  hospitals  to
  report any gunshot injury to law enforcement within one hour of treat-
  ment

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

  Section 1. Section 265.25 of the penal  law  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
S 265.25 Certain wounds to be reported.
  1.  Every  case  of  a bullet wound, gunshot wound, powder burn or any
other injury arising from or  caused  by  the  discharge  of  a  gun  or
firearm,  and  every case of a wound which is likely to or may result in
death and is actually or apparently inflicted by  a  knife,  icepick  or
other  sharp  or  pointed  instrument,  shall be reported at once to the
police authorities of the city, town or village where the person report-
ing is located by: (a) the physician attending or treating the case;  or
(b) the manager, superintendent or other person in charge, whenever such
case  is treated in a hospital, sanitarium or other institution. Failure
to make such report is a class A misdemeanor. This subdivision shall not
apply to such wounds, burns or injuries received  by  a  member  of  the
armed forces of the United States or the state of New York while engaged
in the actual performance of duty.
  2.  WITHIN  ONE  HOUR  OF  CLASSIFYING ANY INJURY AS A GUNSHOT WOUND A
HOSPITAL IS REQUIRED TO REPORT SUCH FINDING TO PROPER LAW ENFORCEMENT AS
PRESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.   FAILURE  TO  MAKE  SUCH
REPORT WITHIN ONE HOUR IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
  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.
                                                           LBD01996-02-9

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