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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4906
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. FAHY -- 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:
1 Section 1. Section 642 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. Unless a victim of an assault in the second degree pursuant to
4 section 120.05 of the penal law chooses to make their statement at a
5 police department, as that term is defined in subdivision a of section
6 eight hundred thirty-seven-c of this chapter, such victim shall be
7 interviewed by the police in their workplace providing such workplace
8 was the scene of the crime and is a hospital, emergency medical facili-
9 ty, nursing home, or residential health care facility as defined in
10 section twenty-eight hundred one of the public health law, or is a
11 facility or hospital as defined in section 1.03 of the mental hygiene
12 law.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
14 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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