Bill Text: NY A01949 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of fraud during a state disaster emergency, where a person is guilty of fraud during a state disaster emergency when he or she commits any fraud during a state disaster emergency utilizing false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises involving the disaster for which such state disaster emergency was declared.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to codes [A01949 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01949-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1949

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of fraud  during
          a state disaster emergency

          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 190.90  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 190.90 Fraud during a state disaster emergency.
     4    A  person is guilty of fraud during a state disaster emergency when he
     5  or she commits any crime defined in this article during a state disaster
     6  emergency as defined in section twenty of the  executive  law  utilizing
     7  false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises involving the
     8  disaster,  as  defined in section twenty of the executive law, for which
     9  such state disaster emergency was declared.
    10    Fraud during a state disaster emergency is a class D felony.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06170-01-1