NY State Legislature· S4906-2025Signed by Governor

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

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  4906--A
     Cal. No. 645
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  FAHY  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
   Correction -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first
   and  second  report,  ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and
   delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote  reconsidered,  restored  to
   third  reading,  amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in
   the order of third reading
 
 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. A VICTIM OF AN ASSAULT MAY CHOOSE TO MAKE THEIR STATEMENT AT  THEIR
 WORKPLACE  PROVIDED SUCH WORKPLACE WAS THE SCENE OF THE ASSAULT AND IS A
 HOSPITAL, EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  FACILITY,  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. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS SHALL
 INFORM THE VICTIM OF THEIR RIGHT TO HAVE THEIR  STATEMENT  BE  TAKEN  AT
 SUCH  WORKPLACE  WHEN  OFFICERS  HAVE  REASON  TO BELIEVE THE VICTIM WAS
 ASSAULTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 120.05 OF THE PENAL 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.
                                                            LBD09400-03-5

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