Senate Bill S6736

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to factoring domestic violence convictions into family court decisions regarding visitation, custody and parental rights

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Children And Families Committee


  • 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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2019-S6736 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Children And Families
Law Section:
Family Court Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §1046, add §842-b, Fam Ct Act

2019-S6736 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to factoring domestic violence convictions into family court decisions regarding visitation, custody and parental rights; establishes the batterer intervention program where the court may order the defendant to receive professional domestic violence counseling from either a private source or a source appointed by the court and require the defendant to provide the court with documentation of attendance.

2019-S6736 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6736 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6736
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                            September 20, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to factoring  domestic
   violence convictions into family court decisions regarding visitation,
   custody and parental rights and establishing the batterer intervention
   program

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (vii) and (viii) of subdivision (a)  of  section
 1046  of the family court act, paragraph (vii) as amended by chapter 432
 of the laws of 1993, paragraph (viii) as added by chapter  1015  of  the
 laws  of  1972, are amended and a new paragraph (ix) is added to read as
 follows:
   (vii) neither the privilege attaching to  confidential  communications
 between husband and wife, as set forth in section forty-five hundred two
 of  the  civil  practice  law  and  rules, nor the physician-patient and
 related privileges, as set forth in section forty-five hundred  four  of
 the civil practice law and rules, nor the psychologist-client privilege,
 as  set  forth in section forty-five hundred seven of the civil practice
 law and rules, nor the social worker-client privilege, as set  forth  in
 section  forty-five  hundred  eight of the civil practice law and rules,
 nor the rape crisis counselor-client privilege, as set forth in  section
 forty-five  hundred  ten of the civil practice law and rules, shall be a
 ground for excluding evidence which otherwise  would  be  admissible[.];
 AND
   (viii) proof of the "impairment of emotional health" or "impairment of
 mental  or  emotional  condition"  as  a  result of the unwillingness or
 inability of the respondent to exercise a minimum degree of care  toward
 a  child  may  include  competent  opinion  or  expert testimony and may
 include proof that such impairment lessened during  a  period  when  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13826-01-9
              

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