Bill Text: NY S08413 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8413

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 29, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- 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 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, he or
     6  she enters a construction site and intentionally stages an  accident  on
     7  such site with the intent to file an insurance claim.
     8    Staging a construction site accident is a class E felony.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14136-01-4