Prohibits the state, its political subdivisions, public authorities, and employees and agents thereof from compelling domestic abuse victims to contact their abusers, directly or indirectly for any reason whatsoever.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1405
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT, EDDINGTON, GABRYSZAK, JAFFEE, SCARBOROUGH
-- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CHRISTENSEN, GLICK, HOOPER, JOHN,
KOON, ROBINSON, SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to prohibiting the
state or any of its political subdivisions and public authorities from
compelling domestic abuse victims to contact their abusers for any
reason
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
2 459-h to read as follows:
3 § 459-h. Contact with abuser shall not be compelled. Neither the
4 state nor any political subdivision thereof, public authority, or
5 employee or agent thereof shall in any way force or compel a domestic
6 violence victim, as defined in this article, to contact his or her abus-
7 er, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatsoever.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00293-01-9
