BILL NUMBER: S4079
SPONSOR: PARKER
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
coercive control
 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Relates to establishing the crime of coercive control
 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1: The penal law is amended by adding a new section 135.80.
Section 2: This act shall take effect immediately.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
Coercive control refers to abuse as a "strategic course of oppressive
behavior," meaning that battering is:
- rational, instrumental behavior and not a loss of control
- "ongoing" rather than episodic
- based on multiple tactics like violence, intimidation, degradation,
isolation and control
Although times are changing, men still possess gender-based privilege
and sixty - eighty percent of abused women experience coercive control
beyond physical and emotional abuse This legislation will prompt advo-
cates to look beyond the violence and access ones actions and behaviors
within Intimate Partner violence
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2023-24: S6695- Referred Codes
2019-20: S.5306 - Referred Codes
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.