Bill Text: NY A05073 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates the crime of staging a motor vehicle accident.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-15)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-20 - REFERRED TO CODES [A05073 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A05073-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5073 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, MOSLEY, OTIS, SKARTADOS, WALTER, GRAF, CURRAN, BUCHWALD -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, ABINANTI, ARROYO, BARCLAY, COLTON, COOK, CROUCH, DINOWITZ, FINCH, GALEF, GIGLIO, GOODELL, GUNTHER, HAWLEY, HIKIND, HOOPER, KEARNS, LALOR, LAVINE, LUPI- NACCI, MAGEE, MALLIOTAKIS, McDONOUGH, McKEVITT, McLAUGHLIN, MONTESANO, NOLAN, OAKS, PALMESANO, PERRY, RAIA, RIVERA, SIMANOWITZ, SOLAGES, TITONE, TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes 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 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding two new sections 176.75 and 3 176.80 to read as follows: 4 § 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 § 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. 16 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the first degree is a class D 17 felony. 18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 19 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04819-02-7