File #: Int 0207-2022    Version: * Name: Informing sexual assault survivors of their rights.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 4/14/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law in relation to informing sexual assault survivors of their rights
Sponsors: Marjorie Velázquez, Althea V. Stevens, Shahana K. Hanif, Lincoln Restler, Christopher Marte, Carlina Rivera , Sandy Nurse, Shaun Abreu, Robert F. Holden, Erik D. Bottcher, Pierina Ana Sanchez
Council Member Sponsors: 11
Summary: The proposed legislation would require the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to conduct an outreach campaign to help ensure that survivors of sexual assault in New York know their rights and the services they are legally entitled to.
Indexes: Sunset Date Applies
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 207, 2. Int. No. 207, 3. April 14, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-14-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 14, 2022
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12/31/2023*Marjorie Velázquez City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
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4/14/2022*Marjorie Velázquez City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 207

 

By Council Members Velázquez, Stevens, Hanif, Restler, Marte, Rivera, Nurse, Abreu, Holden, Bottcher and Sanchez

 

A Local Law in relation to informing sexual assault survivors of their rights

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the term “sexual assault” means any nonconsensual sexual act proscribed by federal or state law, including when the victim lacks capacity to consent.

b. The department of health and mental hygiene shall conduct an outreach campaign to notify survivors of sexual assault of their rights under chapter 238 of title 18 of the United States code, section 631(13) of the New York executive law, and sections 2805-i and 2805-p of the New York public health law, or any successor to such provisions, and any regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

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