Bill Text: NY S08413 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of staging a construction site accident which is a class E felony.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 12-4)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-02 - PRINT NUMBER 8413A [S08413 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08413-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8413--A

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 29, 2024
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        Introduced by Sens. BRESLIN, BORRELLO, MARTINS, MURRAY, O'MARA, PALUMBO,
          ROLISON  --  read  twice  and  ordered printed, and when printed to be
          committed to the Committee on  Codes  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime  of
          staging a construction site accident

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 176.85  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 176.85 Staging a construction site accident.
     4    A  person is guilty of staging a construction site accident when, with
     5  intent to commit and in furtherance of a fraudulent insurance act,  such
     6  person  enters  a construction site and intentionally stages an accident
     7  on such site with the intent to file an  insurance  claim,  or  directs,
     8  hires,  requests, encourages, orchestrates or invites another individual
     9  to enter a construction site and intentionally stage an accident on such
    10  site with the intent to file an insurance claim.
    11    Staging a construction site accident is a class E felony.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    13  it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14136-03-4