Bill Text: NY A04655 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "dog attack victims fair compensation act"; makes victims of certain dog attacks eligible for awards by the office of victim services; requires dog control officers to give victims a card with notice thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to governmental operations [A04655 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A04655-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4655
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 4, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. LANCMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  enacting  the  "dog
         attack victims fair compensation act"
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
    2  the "dog attack victims fair compensation act".
    3    S  2. Subdivision 3 of section 621 of the executive law, as amended by
    4  chapter 710 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
    5    3. "Crime" shall mean (a) an act committed in  New  York  state  which
    6  would,  if  committed  by  a  mentally  competent criminally responsible
    7  adult, who has no legal exemption or  defense,  constitute  a  crime  as
    8  defined in and proscribed by law; [or]
    9    (b)  an act committed outside the state of New York against a resident
   10  of the state of New York which would  be  compensable  had  it  occurred
   11  within  the  state  of New York and which occurred in a state which does
   12  not have an eligible crime victim compensation program as such  term  is
   13  defined in the federal victims of crime act of 1984; [or]
   14    (c)  an  act  of  terrorism,  as  defined in section 2331 of title 18,
   15  United States Code, committed outside of the  United  States  against  a
   16  resident of New York state; OR
   17    (D)   A   VIOLATION  OF  SUBDIVISION  SEVEN  OF  SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED
   18  TWENTY-THREE OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW.
   19    S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   20  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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