Bill Text: NY A04880 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to certificates to a charitable bail organization to deposit money as bail under certain circumstances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-20 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [A04880 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04880-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4880--A
                                                                Cal. No. 348
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 3, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. BLAKE, LENTOL, HARRIS, LIFTON, MOSLEY, HYNDMAN,
          SEPULVEDA, L. ROSENTHAL, SIMON, JAFFEE, CARROLL,  GLICK,  JEAN-PIERRE,
          AUBRY,  STECK  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, HEVESI -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Codes  --  ordered  to  a  third
          reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted, retaining its place on the
          order of third reading
        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to charitable bail organ-
          izations
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph 4 of subsection (a) and subsection (b) of section
     2  6805  of the insurance law, as added by chapter 181 of the laws of 2012,
     3  are amended to read as follows:
     4    (4) A charitable bail organization certificate shall be  valid  for  a
     5  term  of  five years from issuance. At the time of application for every
     6  such certificate, [and for every renewal thereof,]  an  applicant  shall
     7  pay  to  the superintendent a sum of [one thousand] five hundred dollars
     8  payable each term or fraction of a term, provided, however, that in  his
     9  or her discretion, the superintendent may waive such fee.
    10    (b) A charitable bail organization shall:
    11    (1)  only  deposit  money  as bail in the amount of [two] ten thousand
    12  dollars or less for a defendant charged with one or more  [misdemeanors]
    13  offenses,  as  defined  in subdivision one of section 10.00 of the penal
    14  law, provided, however, that such  organization  shall  not  execute  as
    15  surety any bond for any defendant;
    16    (2) only deposit money as bail on behalf of a person who is financial-
    17  ly  unable  to  post  bail,  which may constitute a portion or the whole
    18  amount of such bail; and
    19    (3) [only deposit money as bail in one county in this state. Provided,
    20  however, that a charitable bail organization whose  principal  place  of

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09733-03-8

        A. 4880--A                          2

     1  business is located within a city of a million or more may deposit money
     2  as bail in the five counties comprising such city; and
     3    (4)]  not  charge  a  premium  or receive compensation for acting as a
     4  charitable bail organization.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
     6  ments  to  subsection  (b)  of section 6805 of the insurance law made by
     7  section one of this act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after  it
     8  shall have become a law.
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