STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3432 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 23, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. PARKER, PERKINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to enacting the "domestic violence escalation prevention act" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "domestic violence escalation prevention act". 3 § 2. Subdivision 17 of section 265.00 of the penal law is amended by 4 adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: 5 (c) a crime set forth in subdivision one of section 530.11 of the 6 criminal procedure law, where the victim and the defendant were "members 7 of the same family or household" as defined in that section. 8 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01162-01-7