Bill Text: NY A04053 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires contractors to give immediate written notice to the crime victims board regarding payments of profit of a crime and imposes civil liability for the failure to comply therewith.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to governmental operations [A04053 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A04053-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4053 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 1, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LATIMER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to payments received as profit for a crime THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 632-a of the 2 executive law, as amended by section 24 of part A1 of chapter 56 of the 3 laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: 4 (a) Every person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other 5 legal entity, or representative of such person, firm, corporation, part- 6 nership, association or entity, which knowingly contracts for, pays, or 7 agrees to pay: (i) any profits from a crime as defined in paragraph (b) 8 of subdivision one of this section, to a person charged with or 9 convicted of that crime, or to the representative of such person as 10 defined in subdivision six of section six hundred twenty-one of this 11 article; or (ii) any funds of a convicted person, as defined in para- 12 graph (c) of subdivision one of this section, where such conviction is 13 for a specified crime and the value, combined value or aggregate value 14 of the payment or payments of such funds exceeds or will exceed ten 15 thousand dollars, OR TO A PERSON OR PARTY ACTUALLY KNOWN TO SUCH PERSON, 16 FIRM, CORPORATION, PARTNERSHIP, ASSOCIATION OR OTHER LEGAL ENTITY TO BE 17 AN AGENT OR ASSIGNEE OF THE PERSON SO CHARGED OR CONVICTED shall give 18 written notice to the office of the payment or obligation to pay as soon 19 as practicable, BUT IN NO EVENT LATER THAN THIRTY DAYS, after discover- 20 ing that the payment or intended payment constitutes profits from a 21 crime or funds of a convicted person. KNOWING FAILURE OF THE CONTRACTOR 22 TO NOTIFY THE OFFICE OF VICTIM SERVICES OF SUCH PAYMENT, OBLIGATION TO 23 PAY OR INTENDED PAYMENT SHALL RESULT IN A CIVIL PENALTY IN AN AMOUNT UP 24 TO THE FULL AMOUNT OF ALL CONSIDERATION OFFERED OR CONTRACTED, EXCEPT 25 THAT IF THE CONSIDERATION OFFERED OR CONTRACTED EXCEEDS TWENTY-FIVE EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06211-01-1 A. 4053 2 1 THOUSAND DOLLARS, THEN UP TO TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS PLUS UP TO 2 TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATION OFFERED OR 3 CONTRACTED WHICH EXCEEDS TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. ANY MONIES 4 COLLECTED BY THE OFFICE AS A RESULT OF A VIOLATION OF THIS SUBDIVISION 5 SHALL BE HANDLED IN THE SAME MANNER AS ASSESSMENTS UNDER SUBPARAGRAPH 6 (I) OF PARAGRAPH (B) OF SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF THIS SECTION. 7 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.