Bill Text: NY A06816 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that anyone who directs, hires, requests, encourages, orchestrates or invites another individual to cause a collision involving a motor vehicle shall be guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A06816 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06816-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6816

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the penal law, in relation to the crime of staging a
          motor vehicle accident in the second degree

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

     1    Section 1. Section 176.75 of the penal law, as added by chapter 151 of
     2  the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 176.75 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree.
     4    A  person  is guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second
     5  degree when, with intent to commit and in furtherance  of  a  fraudulent
     6  insurance  act,  he  or  she  operates a motor vehicle and intentionally
     7  causes a  collision  involving  a  motor  vehicle,  or  directs,  hires,
     8  requests,  encourages,  orchestrates  or  invites  another individual to
     9  cause a collision involving a motor vehicle.
    10    Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree  is  a  class  E
    11  felony.
    12    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10753-01-3