Permits a social worker, rape crisis counselor, or other professional to provide emotional support to a vulnerable elderly person testifying in certain grand jury proceedings provided that the district attorney consents.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2374
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 16, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, ABBATE, GUNTHER -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. BRENNAN, CAHILL, CLARK, COLTON, COOK, CYMBROWITZ,
GALEF, GOTTFRIED, MAGEE, RIVERA, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to permitting a
social worker or other professional to provide emotional support to a
vulnerable elderly person testifying in certain grand jury proceedings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 190.25 of the criminal procedure
2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:
3 (i) A social worker, rape crisis counselor, psychologist or other
4 professional providing emotional support to a vulnerable elderly person,
5 as that term is defined in subdivision three of section 260.31 of the
6 penal law, as added by chapter three hundred eighty-one of the laws of
7 nineteen hundred ninety-eight, who is called to give evidence in a grand
8 jury proceeding, concerning any type of offense, provided that the
9 district attorney consents. Such support person shall not provide the
10 witness with an answer to any question or otherwise participate in such
11 proceeding and shall first take an oath before the grand jury that he or
12 she will keep secret all matters before such grand jury within his or
13 her knowledge.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
15 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06426-01-5
