Bill Text: NY A04054 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that in any action commenced under the state's anti-trust law, the court may direct that all or any part of a criminal fine or civil penalty imposed upon a violator may, in the court's discretion, be ordered to be deposited with the office of victim services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-09-13 - SIGNED CHAP.291 [A04054 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04054-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          4054
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 31, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the general business  law  and  the  executive  law,  in
          relation to the disposition of certain fines
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  347-a to read as follows:
     3    § 347-a. Fines payable to the office of victim  services.    Following
     4  sentencing  for  a  crime pursuant to section three hundred forty-one of
     5  this article or upon  a  judgment  pursuant  to  section  three  hundred
     6  forty-two-a  of  this article, the court in its discretion may determine
     7  that any fine or penalty or any portion thereof shall  be  paid  to  the
     8  office  of  victim  services  to  be expended for any purpose of article
     9  twenty-two of the executive law as provided by subdivision  nineteen  of
    10  section six hundred twenty-three of such law.
    11    § 2. Subdivision 19 of section 623 of the executive law, as amended by
    12  section  8  of part A-1 of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is amended to
    13  read as follows:
    14    19. To accept, with the approval of the  governor,  as  agent  of  the
    15  state,  any  grant  including  federal  grants,  any  fines or penalties
    16  imposed pursuant to section three hundred  forty-one  or  three  hundred
    17  forty-two-a  of  the general business law and made payable to the office
    18  pursuant to section three hundred forty-seven-a of such law, or any gift
    19  for the purposes of this article. Any monies so received may be expended
    20  by the office to effectuate any purpose of this article, subject to  the
    21  applicable provisions of the state finance law.
    22    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law and shall apply to any judgment  entered  or  fine  or
    24  penalty imposed on or after such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03426-01-9
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