Bill Text: NY A00307 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts retirement accounts established by not-for-profit corporations from application to the satisfaction of money judgments for bankruptcy purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to judiciary [A00307 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00307-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           307

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to exempt-
          ing certain accounts established by not-for-profit  corporations  from
          application  to  the  satisfaction  of  money judgments for bankruptcy
          purposes

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (c) of section 5205 of the civil
     2  practice  law  and rules, as amended by chapter 141 of the laws of 2001,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    2. For purposes of this subdivision, all trusts,  custodial  accounts,
     5  annuities,  insurance contracts, monies, assets or interests established
     6  as part of, and all payments from, either any trust or  plan,  which  is
     7  qualified as an individual retirement account under section four hundred
     8  eight  or  section  four  hundred  eight A of the United States Internal
     9  Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, a Keogh (HR-10), retirement  or  other
    10  plan established by a corporation or other organization, which is quali-
    11  fied under section 401 or 403 of the United States Internal Revenue Code
    12  of 1986, as amended, or created as a result of rollovers from such plans
    13  pursuant  to  sections  402 (a) (5), 403 (a) (4), 408 (d) (3) or 408A of
    14  the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or a plan that  satisfies
    15  the requirements of section 457 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
    16  amended,  shall be considered a trust which has been created by or which
    17  has proceeded from a person other than the judgment debtor, even  though
    18  such  judgment  debtor  is  (i)  in the case of an individual retirement
    19  account plan, an individual who is the settlor of and depositor to  such
    20  account  plan, or (ii) a self-employed individual, or (iii) a partner of
    21  the entity sponsoring the Keogh (HR-10) plan, or (iv) a  shareholder  of
    22  the corporation sponsoring the retirement or other plan or (v) a partic-
    23  ipant in a section 457 plan.
    24    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the
    25  satisfaction of judgments on or after such date.

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