Bill Text: NY A05073 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5073
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 6, 2017
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        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