Categorizes the assault of certain employees of the New York city department of buildings or the New York city department of housing preservation and development as a class D felony.
Authorizes vocational training, where practicable, to incarcerated individuals on the installation of solar hot water systems for the provision of hot water to correctional facilities.
This bill prohibits state-chartered banks from investing in or providing financing for private prisons. It directly affects state-chartered banking institutions by banning financial support for entities owning or operating private correctional facilities. The key provision (Section 12 of the banking law) explicitly forbids banks from funding or purchasing securities related to such facilities, aligning with existing state restrictions on private prisons under Correction Law §121. The law applies immediately to all new or modified financial contracts after its effective date.
Requires that all sexual offense evidence shall be kept in a locked, separate and secure area for twenty years from the date of collection or until the victim's fortieth birthday, whichever is later; makes other sexual offense evidence collection kit procedures.
Adds falsely reporting the use of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument as part of the crimes of falsely reporting an incident in the first and second degrees.
Redefines the term "following" for a crime of stalking in the fourth degree to include the use of certain devices or computers to gain access to, record, track or report the movement or location of a person or their property without the person's permission or authority to do so.
Establishes the crime of voyeurism in the first and second degree which is defined as when someone for their own amusement, entertainment, profit, sexual arousal or sexual gratification trespasses or uses an instrument to observe for the purpose of viewing a person dressing or undressing or the sexual or other intimate parts of such person at a place and time when such person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, without such person's knowledge or consent.
This bill, S 1015, prohibits an individual convicted of a crime involving elder abuse from inheriting from the estate of the vulnerable elderly person they abused. It defines a "vulnerable elderly person" as someone 60 or older with age-related conditions making them unable to care for themselves, and a "caregiver" as someone responsible for their care. The bill outlines various forms of "elder abuse," including physical, sexual, emotional abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation. If a caregiver is convicted of such a crime, they are disqualified from receiving any distributive share of the victim's estate.
Designates services to be provided by a jail-based substance use disorder treatment, peer led recovery support services, and transition services program as essential medical care services.
Requires the district attorney to notify victims by letter of the final disposition of the case within sixty days of such disposition in cases where such final disposition includes a conviction; provides such letter shall also notify victims of their right to make a victim impact statement; allows them to personally appear at parole hearings and make such a statement.
