Bill Text: NY A00756 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Creates the crime of staging a motor vehicle accident.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-11 - REFERRED TO CODES [A00756 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A00756-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        756--A
                                                               Cal. No. 786
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of A. WEPRIN, MOSLEY, OTIS, SKARTADOS, WALTER, GRAF,
         CURRAN, BUCHWALD -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  ABBATE,  ABINANTI,
         ARROYO, BARCLAY, BRENNAN, CERETTO, CLARK, COLTON, COOK, CROUCH, DINOW-
         ITZ,  DUPREY,  FINCH, GALEF, GIGLIO, GOODELL, GUNTHER, HAWLEY, HIKIND,
         HOOPER, KEARNS, LALOR, LAVINE, LUPINACCI,  MAGEE,  MALLIOTAKIS,  McDO-
         NOUGH, McKEVITT, McLAUGHLIN, MONTESANO, NOLAN, OAKS, PALMESANO, PERRY,
         RAIA, RIVERA, ROBERTS, ROBINSON, SALADINO, SCARBOROUGH, SCHIMEL, SIMA-
         NOWITZ,  SOLAGES,  SWEENEY,  TENNEY, TITONE, TITUS, WEISENBERG -- read
         once and referred to the Committee on  Codes  --  recommitted  to  the
         Committee  on  Codes  in  accordance  with  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
         reported from committee, advanced to  a  third  reading,  amended  and
         ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
       AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to staging a motor vehicle
         accident
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Alice's Law".
    2    S  2.  The  penal law is amended by adding two new sections 176.75 and
    3  176.80 to read as follows:
    4  S 176.75 STAGING A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT IN THE SECOND DEGREE.
    5    A PERSON IS GUILTY OF STAGING A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT IN  THE  SECOND
    6  DEGREE  WHEN,  WITH  INTENT TO COMMIT AND IN FURTHERANCE OF A FRAUDULENT
    7  INSURANCE ACT, HE OR SHE OPERATES  A  MOTOR  VEHICLE  AND  INTENTIONALLY
    8  CAUSES A COLLISION INVOLVING A MOTOR VEHICLE.
    9    STAGING  A  MOTOR  VEHICLE  ACCIDENT IN THE SECOND DEGREE IS A CLASS E
   10  FELONY.
   11  S 176.80 STAGING A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
   12    A PERSON IS GUILTY OF STAGING A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT  IN  THE  FIRST
   13  DEGREE  WHEN  HE  OR  SHE COMMITS THE OFFENSE OF STAGING A MOTOR VEHICLE
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03833-03-4
       A. 756--A                           2
    1  ACCIDENT IN THE THIRD DEGREE AND THEREBY CAUSES SERIOUS PERSONAL  INJURY
    2  OR DEATH TO ANOTHER PERSON, OTHER THAN A PARTICIPANT IN SUCH OFFENSE.
    3    STAGING  A  MOTOR  VEHICLE  ACCIDENT  IN THE FIRST DEGREE IS A CLASS D
    4  FELONY.
    5    S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    6  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.