STATE OF NEW YORK
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5608
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. WEINSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT, GLICK, JAFFEE, D'URSO,
BARRON, COLTON, TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to expanding the
crimes included in domestic violence to include identity theft, grand
larceny and coercion
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 459-a of the social services law,
2 as amended by chapter 11 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. "Victim of domestic violence" means any person over the age of
5 sixteen, any married person or any parent accompanied by his or her
6 minor child or children in situations in which such person or such
7 person's child is a victim of an act which would constitute a violation
8 of the penal law, including, but not limited to acts constituting disor-
9 derly conduct, harassment, aggravated harassment, sexual misconduct,
10 forcible touching, sexual abuse, stalking, criminal mischief, menacing,
11 reckless endangerment, kidnapping, assault, attempted assault, attempted
12 murder, criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation, [or]
13 strangulation, identity theft, grand larceny or coercion; and
14 (i) such act or acts have resulted in actual physical or emotional
15 injury or have created a substantial risk of physical or emotional harm
16 to such person or such person's child; and
17 (ii) such act or acts are or are alleged to have been committed by a
18 family or household member.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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