Bill Text: NY S08413 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes the crime of staging a construction site accident which is a class E felony.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 12-2)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-02 - PRINT NUMBER 8413A [S08413 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S08413-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8413--A IN SENATE January 29, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BRESLIN, BORRELLO, MARTINS, MURRAY, O'MARA, PALUMBO, ROLISON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of staging a construction site accident The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 176.85 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 176.85 Staging a construction site accident. 4 A person is guilty of staging a construction site accident when, with 5 intent to commit and in furtherance of a fraudulent insurance act, such 6 person enters a construction site and intentionally stages an accident 7 on such site with the intent to file an insurance claim, or directs, 8 hires, requests, encourages, orchestrates or invites another individual 9 to enter a construction site and intentionally stage an accident on such 10 site with the intent to file an insurance claim. 11 Staging a construction site accident is a class E felony. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 13 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14136-03-4
