Bill Text: NY A04874 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the money deposited as bail by charitable bail organizations; removes maximum authorized amount of money allowed to be deposited by such organizations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A04874 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04874-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4874

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 24, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to the money deposited as
          bail by charitable bail organizations

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subsection (b) of section 6805 of the insur-
     2  ance law, as added by chapter 181 of the laws of  2012,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (1)  only deposit money as bail [in the amount of two thousand dollars
     5  or less] for a  defendant  [charged  with  one  or  more  misdemeanors],
     6  provided,  however,  that  such organization shall not execute as surety
     7  any bond for any defendant;
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09667-01-3