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                                   1653
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2023
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 Introduced by M. of A. AUBRY, DeSTEFANO -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN  ACT to amend the executive law and the judiciary law, in relation to
   requiring the division of  criminal  justice  services  to  track  the
   number of permanent orders of protection issued annually

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 837 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 4-d to read as follows:
   4-D. IN COOPERATION WITH THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR OF THE COURTS AS WELL
 AS ANY OTHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE AGENCY, INCLUDING LAW  ENFORCEMENT  AGEN-
 CIES, COLLECT AND ANALYZE STATISTICAL AND ALL OTHER INFORMATION AND DATA
 WITH RESPECT TO THE NUMBER OF PERMANENT ORDERS OF PROTECTION ISSUED, THE
 NUMBER  OF PERMANENT ORDERS OF PROTECTION REPORTED TO OR INVESTIGATED BY
 THE DIVISION OF STATE POLICE, AND ALL OTHER POLICE OR PEACE OFFICERS  AS
 VIOLATED,  THE  NUMBER  OF PERSONS ARRESTED FOR VIOLATING SUCH ORDERS OF
 PROTECTION, ANY ADDITIONAL OFFENSES FOR WHICH THE  PERSON  WAS  ARRESTED
 FOR  WHILE  VIOLATING SUCH ORDERS OF PROTECTION, THE COUNTY WITHIN WHICH
 THE ARREST WAS MADE AND THE ACCUSATORY INSTRUMENT FILED, THE DISPOSITION
 OF THE ACCUSATORY INSTRUMENT FILED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT  LIMITED  TO,  AS
 THE  CASE MAY BE, DISMISSAL, ACQUITTAL, THE OFFENSE TO WHICH THE DEFEND-
 ANT PLED GUILTY, THE OFFENSE THE DEFENDANT WAS CONVICTED OF AFTER TRIAL,
 AND THE SENTENCE IMPOSED. THE DIVISION SHALL INCLUDE THE STATISTICS  AND
 OTHER  INFORMATION  REQUIRED  BY  THIS  SUBDIVISION IN THE ANNUAL REPORT
 SUBMITTED TO THE GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWELVE
 OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. Section 216 of the judiciary law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7.  THE  CHIEF  ADMINISTRATOR  OF  THE  COURTS  SHALL  COLLECT DATA IN
 RELATION TO THE NUMBER OF PERMANENT ORDERS OF PROTECTION ISSUED  IN  ALL
 COURTS  PURSUANT  TO SUBDIVISION FOUR-D OF SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 SEVEN OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO  THE  FOLLOWING
 INFORMATION:
   (A) THE NUMBER OF PERMANENT ORDERS OF PROTECTION ISSUED;
   (B) THE NUMBER OF PERMANENT ORDERS OF PROTECTION REPORTED AS VIOLATED;
   (C)  THE  NUMBER  OF  PERSONS  ARRESTED  FOR  VIOLATING SUCH ORDERS OF
 PROTECTION;
   (D) ANY ADDITIONAL OFFENSES WHICH SUCH PERSONS WERE ARRESTED FOR WHILE
 VIOLATING SUCH ORDERS OF PROTECTION;
   (E) THE COUNTY WITHIN WHICH THE ACCUSATORY INSTRUMENT WAS FILED;
   (F) THE DISPOSITION; AND
   (G) IN THE CASE OF DISMISSAL, THE REASONS THEREFOR.
   IN EXECUTING THIS REQUIREMENT, THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR MAY ADOPT RULES
 REQUIRING APPROPRIATE LAW ENFORCEMENT, DISTRICT ATTORNEYS AND COURTS  TO
 IDENTIFY  ACTIONS  AND  PROCEEDINGS  INVOLVING ORDERS OF PROTECTION AND,
 WITH RESPECT TO SUCH ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS, TO REPORT,  IN  SUCH  FORM
 AND  MANNER  AS THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR SHALL PRESCRIBE, THE INFORMATION
 SPECIFIED HEREIN.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the chief administra-
 tor of the courts is authorized to promulgate  any  and  all  rules  and
 regulations  and take any other measures necessary to implement this act
 on its effective date on or before such date.