S2289 (2023-24 session)
NY State bill
Authorizes courts to exercise discretion permitting a courthouse facility dog for use by witnesses to be used in any judicial proceeding; provides that courts with an available courthouse facility dog must allow a witness under eighteen years of age, or who has a developmental disability, to use a courthouse facility dog to accompany such person while testifying in court; allows any witness who does not meet the criteria of being under eighteen years of age or having a developmental disability to use a courthouse facility dog, if available, to accompany them while testifying in court; defines terms; makes related provisions.
- Title
- Relates to courthouse facility dogs for witnesses
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2023-24 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2024-05-07
- In committee
- Agriculture
- Introduced
- 2023-01-19
- Same as
- A3206
- Law section
- Judiciary Law
Sponsors
Heard in committee
- Agriculture NY State Senate committee
- Judiciary NY State Senate committee
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Judiciary, 2024-05-07 Referred to committee; referred to Agriculture