Bill Text: NY A03800 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3800

Introduced

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

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-6)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-30 - referred to codes [A03800 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A03800-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3800

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 30, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. WEPRIN, HYNDMAN, HEVESI, LUCAS, LAVINE, BLUMEN-
          CRANZ, BENDETT,  DINOWITZ,  BRABENEC,  BLANKENBUSH,  JACOBSON,  STECK,
          ANGELINO, STERN, TAPIA, PAULIN, SLATER, LUNSFORD -- Multi-Sponsored by
          --  M.  of A.  LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Codes

        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.
                                                                   LBD07801-01-5