Bill Text: NY A04655 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4655 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 4, 2011 ___________ 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. LBD01877-02-1