Bill Text: NY S04868 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to admissibility of an opposing party's statement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04868 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S04868-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4868--A Cal. No. 630 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 3, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- (at request of the Office of Court Admin- istration) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to admis- sibility of an opposing party's statement The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The civil practice law and rules is amended by adding a new 2 section 4551 to read as follows: 3 § 4551. Admissibility of an opposing party's statement. A statement 4 offered against an opposing party shall not be excluded from evidence as 5 hearsay if made by a person whom the opposing party authorized to make a 6 statement on the subject or by the opposing party's agent or employee on 7 a matter within the scope of that relationship and made during the 8 existence of that relationship. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 10 actions pending on or after its effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06796-03-7
