Bill Text: NY A05919 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to admissibility of an opposing party's statement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-09 - enacting clause stricken [A05919 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A05919-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5919--A Cal. No. 347 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 17, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEINSTEIN -- (at request of the Office of Court Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judici- ary -- reported from committee, advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third read- ing AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to admis- sibility of an opposing party's statement The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The civil practice law and rules is amended by adding a new 2 section 4551 to read as follows: 3 § 4551. Admissibility of an opposing party's statement. A statement 4 offered against an opposing party shall not be excluded from evidence as 5 hearsay if made by a person whom the opposing party authorized to make a 6 statement on the subject or by the opposing party's agent or employee on 7 a matter within the scope of that relationship and made during the 8 existence of that relationship. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 10 actions pending on or after its effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06796-04-7
