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Jan 06, 2016 |
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Jan 07, 2015 |
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Assembly Bill A389
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
SKARTADOS
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2015-A389 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-A389 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 389 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y (PREFILED) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SKARTADOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to providing witnesses with facility dogs THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. This act shall be known and shall be cited as "Rosie's Law". S 2. Legislative intent. Testifying in court is an unfamiliar and stressful event for most people and certain individuals are at a greater predisposition to be impacted by this experience. Stress can hamper the ability of a witness to provide testimony in a proceeding and interfere with the truth finding process. Scientific evidence has shown that calm dogs reduce stress in humans. When certain individuals are permitted to have a facility dog assist them while testifying during a court proceed- ing it helps reduce their stress so that they can better communicate. The purpose of this legislation is to facilitate the truth finding proc- ess through fair and accurate testimony. If in order to facilitate testimony that is fair and accurate, the court determines by a prepon- derance of the evidence that a vulnerable witness could suffer emotional distress while testifying in court that could impair the ability of the victim or witness to effectively communicate, the court may order that a facility dog or the equivalent thereof, if available, may accompany the vulnerable witness to the witness stand or be visible to the vulnerable witness in the courtroom. S 3. The criminal procedure law is amended by adding a new article 67 to read as follows: ARTICLE 67 USE OF FACILITY DOGS FOR CERTAIN WITNESSES SECTION 67.00 DEFINITIONS. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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