Enacts the "Lydia Peikon Cotz act"; provides domestic violence victims and crime victims with supervision while taking depositions; directs the court to provide a secure location within the courthouse, and a court officer, for such persons taking depositions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1395
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to provid-
ing domestic violence victims or crime victims with supervision while
taking depositions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "Lydia Peikon Cotz act".
3 § 2. Section 3104 of the civil practice law and rules is amended by
4 adding a new subdivision (f) to read as follows:
5 (f) Whenever a party is protected by an order of protection issued
6 under section eight hundred forty-two of the family court act or a
7 protective order issued under subdivision one of section 530.12 of the
8 criminal procedure law, upon application, the court shall provide a
9 secure location within the courthouse, and a court officer, for taking
10 the deposition of either the party or the opposing party.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04103-01-7
