Crime Committee Report e.indd - New York State Senate

Vetoed 8/13/10 memo 6759 of 2010
S.6000 Hassell-Thompson*, Adams, Addabbo, Duane, Klein, Krueger, Montgomery, Oppenheimer,
Perkins, Sampson, Savino, Stavisky, Volker/A.9018-A(John)
S6000 is the companion to the original Governor’s domestic violence Program bill. This bill
would also amend the Human Rights Law (Executive Law Sec. 292) to prohibit discrimination
against victims of domestic violence in employment. Furthermore, the bill would require the
employer to provide, unless it would result in an undue hardship, a reasonable accommodation
to a victim of domestic violence, limited solely to an absence, charged to leave or unpaid, for
certain activities (attending court, seeking medical attention or counseling ). It would further
require an employee who must be absent from work for these reasons to provide reasonable
advance notice, except where not feasible. This bill was re-introduced in 2010.
S.6650 Hassell-Thompson*, Stavisky, Volker/A.456-A (Jacobs)
This bill would adopt the family violence option (known as the Wellstone/Murray amendment)
in the federal Social Security Act which permits the waiver of federal program requirements
or penalty provisions for domestic violence services in the State of New York to provide
full protection from losing public assistance benefits under the (not so)new federal welfare
reform law. It also provides protection for battered immigrants, mandates domestic violence
and sexual abuse training programs for employees and contractors who work for the office of
children and family services and have contact with applicants and welfare recipients. This bill
was originally introduced in 1998 and has never passed either house of the Legislature.
Chapter 446 of the Laws of 2010
S.8058 Hassell-Thompson*/A.11100, Weinstein
At the request of the Office of Court Administration, this legislation amends section 153-b
of the Family Court Act and section 240 of the Domestic Relations Law to clarify that litigants
have the option of using law enforcement to serve orders of protection and temporary orders
of protection and any associated papers issued in the later stages of family offense proceedings,
including service of extended orders and petitions.
The legislation also makes clear that service of orders of protection provided by peace or police
officers under section 240 of the Domestic Relations Law shall be free of charge for litigants.
Chapter 363 of the Laws of 2010
S.8013 Sampson, Hassell-Thompson/A10851-A, Weinstein
(Formerly S.5033 Hassell-Thompson/A390 (John))
This bill was originally introduced in 2005 by Member of Assembly Susan John to extend use
of judicial hearing officers or referees to determine ex parte orders of protection brought in all
Family Courts, whether during the time that Court was in session or after hours. Over the years,
the pilot projects that the Office of Court Administration supported proved to be effective in
light of the severe shortage of Family Court judges. This bill extends for two years the authority
of referees to determine applications for orders of protection in Family Court when such
application is made ex parte or without the presence of all the parties except the applicant and
it specifies that such provisions shall only apply during those hours that the family court is in
session and after 5:00 p.m.
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