Bill Text: NY A08355 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes the fiduciary of a decedent to take control of certain web site accounts of the decedent.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to judiciary [A08355 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08355-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8355
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    August 5, 2015
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ, MILLER, ROBINSON, LUPARDO, COLTON, GALEF,
         CRESPO, ZEBROWSKI, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  CERET-
         TO,  HIKIND,  McDONOUGH,  McKEVITT  --  read  once and referred to the
         Committee on Judiciary
       AN ACT to amend the estates, powers  and  trusts  law,  in  relation  to
         authorizing the fiduciary of a decedent to take control of certain web
         site accounts of the decedent
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of section 11-1.1 of the estates, powers  and
    2  trusts  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new  subparagraph 23 to read as
    3  follows:
    4    (23) UNLESS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED BY THE WILL OR COURT ORDER,  TO  TAKE
    5  CONTROL  OF,  CONDUCT, CONTINUE OR TERMINATE ANY ACCOUNT OF THE DECEDENT
    6  ON ANY SOCIAL  NETWORKING  WEB  SITE,  MICROBLOGGING  OR  SHORT  MESSAGE
    7  SERVICE WEB SITE OR EMAIL SERVICE WEB SITE.
    8    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03413-01-5
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