New York S 8599: Establishes the domestic violence rehabilitation program

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S08599 Summary:

BILL NOS08599 

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SAME ASSAME AS A09335

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SPONSORSUTTON

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COSPNSRCHAN, COMRIE, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, KRUEGER, MAYER, OBERACKER, RAMOS, SKOUFIS, WEBER

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§240.70 & 240.71, Pen L

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Relates to certain crimes of interference with health care services or access to places of religious worship; expands interference to include groups of two or more people demonstrating or preparing to demonstrate twenty-five feet outside of reproductive health care facilities and places of religious worship.

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BILL NOS08599 

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12/03/2025REFERRED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8599

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 December 3, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. SUTTON, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed,
 and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to certain crimes of inter-
 ference with health care services or religious worship

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The section heading, subdivision 1 and subdivision 3 of
 2 section 240.70 of the penal law, as added by chapter 635 of the laws of
 3 1999, are amended to read as follows:
 4 Criminal interference with health care services or access to a place of
 5 religious worship in the second degree.
 6 1. A person is guilty of criminal interference with health services or
 7 access to a place of religious worship in the second degree when:
 8 (a) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, [he or
 9 she] such person intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with,
 10 or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with, another person
 11 because such other person was or is obtaining or providing reproductive
 12 health services; or
 13 (b) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, [he or
 14 she] such person intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with,
 15 or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with, another person in
 16 order to discourage such other person or any other person or persons
 17 from obtaining or providing reproductive health services; or
 18 (c) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, [he or
 19 she] such person intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with,
 20 or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with, another person
 21 [because] when such person [was or is seeking to exercise the right of
 22 religious freedom at] seeks to enter a place of religious worship, or to
 23 exercise the right of religious freedom therein; or
 24 (d) [he or she] such person intentionally damages the property of a
 25 health care facility, or attempts to do so, because such facility

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14158-02-5

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 1 provides reproductive health services, or intentionally damages the
 2 property of a place of religious worship[.]; or
 3 (e) groups of two or more people demonstrating or preparing to demon-
 4 strate outside of a reproductive health care facility fail to maintain
 5 twenty-five feet of distance from such facility, including its parking
 6 lot entrances, driveway and driveway entrances of such facilities; or
 7 (f) groups of two or more people demonstrating or preparing to demon-
 8 strate outside of a place of religious worship fail to maintain twenty-
 9 five feet of distance from such a place, including its parking lot
 10 entrances, driveway and driveway entrances of such facilities.
 11 3. For purposes of this section:
 12 (a) the term "health care facility" means a hospital, clinic, physi-
 13 cian's office or other facility that provides reproductive health
 14 services, and includes the building or structure in which the facility
 15 is located and shall include the drive, entrance, entryway, or exit and
 16 any public way or sidewalk that touches such places;
 17 (b) the term "interferes with" means to restrict a