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Senate Bill S10210

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring the office of victim assistance to notify crime victims of the availability of victim support services

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2025-S10210 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7668
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §12, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10345
2023-2024: A4195

2025-S10210 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the office of victim assistance to notify crime victims of the availability of victim support services by providing such victims with a written notice of the availability of statewide programs.

2025-S10210 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S10210 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10210
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 5, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BYNOE  -- 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 correction law, in relation to requiring the office
   of victim assistance to notify crime victims of  the  availability  of
   victim support services

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 12 to
 read as follows:
   § 12. VICTIM SUPPORT SERVICES NOTICE. THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  DIRECT
 THE  OFFICE  OF  VICTIM ASSISTANCE TO PROVIDE, UPON A CONVICTION FOR ANY
 CRIME, ANY VICTIM, OR IN THE CASE OF  A  HOMICIDE,  A  SURVIVING  FAMILY
 MEMBER,  OF  SUCH  CRIME  WRITTEN  NOTICE  OF THE AVAILABILITY OF VICTIM
 SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAMS  IN  THE  STATE.  SUCH  WRITTEN  NOTICE  SHALL
 INCLUDE  A  STATEWIDE LISTING OF VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE
 CRISIS INTERVENTION, ADVOCACY,  COUNSELING,  AND  OTHER  VICTIM  SUPPORT
 SERVICES AND SHALL INCLUDE A LINK TO THE WEBSITE OF THE OFFICE OF VICTIM
 SERVICES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04140-01-5

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