Bill Text: NY S07093 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the rules of evidence to permit the admission of an opposing party's statement if made by an agent or employee made within the scope of that relationship and during the existence of that relationship.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-12-31 - SIGNED CHAP.833 [S07093 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S07093-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7093 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 28, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- (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 4549 to read as follows: 3 § 4549. 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. LBD10789-01-1
