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Senate Bill S8916

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for certain victim statements to be taken at their workplace instead of the police department

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2023-S8916 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9327
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §642, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S4906, A6055

2023-S8916 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for certain victim statements to be taken at their workplace instead of the police department where such workplace was the scene of the crime and is a hospital, emergency medical facility, nursing home or residential health care facility.

2023-S8916 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8916 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8916
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 27, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
   Correction
 
 AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to providing for certain
   victim statements to be taken at their workplace instead of the police
   department
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 642 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 6 to read as follows:
   6.  UNLESS  A  VICTIM  OF  AN ASSAULT IN THE SECOND DEGREE PURSUANT TO
 SECTION 120.05 OF THE PENAL LAW CHOOSES TO MAKE  THEIR  STATEMENT  AT  A
 POLICE  DEPARTMENT,  AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION A OF SECTION
 EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN-C OF  THIS  CHAPTER,  SUCH  VICTIM  SHALL  BE
 INTERVIEWED  BY  THE  POLICE IN THEIR WORKPLACE PROVIDING SUCH WORKPLACE
 WAS THE SCENE OF THE CRIME AND IS A HOSPITAL, EMERGENCY MEDICAL  FACILI-
 TY,  NURSING  HOME,  OR  RESIDENTIAL  HEALTH CARE FACILITY AS DEFINED IN
 SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF THE  PUBLIC  HEALTH  LAW,  OR  IS  A
 FACILITY  OR  HOSPITAL  AS DEFINED IN SECTION 1.03 OF THE MENTAL HYGIENE
 LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14653-01-4

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