Bill Text: NY A02615 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 2615 (Prior Session Legislation)

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

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-02-25 - REFERRED TO CODES [A02615 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02615-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        2615--B
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 20, 2015
                                      ___________
       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, SCHIMEL, SIMANOWITZ, SOLAG-
         ES,  TENNEY,  TITONE, TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as
         amended  and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said
         committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and  recommit-
         ted to said committee
       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
   14  ACCIDENT IN THE SECOND DEGREE AND THEREBY CAUSES SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY
   15  OR DEATH TO ANOTHER PERSON, OTHER THAN A PARTICIPANT IN SUCH OFFENSE.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07088-04-5
       A. 2615--B                          2
    1    STAGING A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT IN THE FIRST  DEGREE  IS  A  CLASS  D
    2  FELONY.
    3    S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    4  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.