STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4868 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 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 during the existence 8 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. LBD06796-02-7