Bill Text: NY A06177 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts Alice's Law; relates to the crime of insurance fraud with regard to staging accidents.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-19 - REFERRED TO RULES [A06177 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A06177-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6177--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 8, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. WEPRIN, MAISEL, P. RIVERA, REILLY, TITONE, WEIS-
         ENBERG, ROBERTS, COLTON, GALEF,  COOK,  MCKEVITT,  JEFFRIES,  GUNTHER,
         STEVENSON,  CASTRO,  LAVINE,  HOOPER,  SCARBOROUGH,  TITUS,  ROBINSON,
         BOYLAND, SIMANOWITZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  ABBATE, ABINAN-
         TI, ARROYO, BARCLAY, BRENNAN, BURLING, CALHOUN, CERETTO, CLARK, CONTE,
         CROUCH, DUPREY, FINCH, GIBSON, GIGLIO, GOODELL, GRAF, HAWLEY,  HIKIND,
         LOSQUADRO, MAGEE, MALLIOTAKIS, McDONOUGH, McENENY, McLAUGHLIN, MONTES-
         ANO,  MURRAY,  NOLAN, OAKS, PALMESANO, PERRY, RAIA, SALADINO, SCHIMEL,
         SWEENEY, TENNEY, TOBACCO, WALTER -- read  once  and  referred  to  the
         Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accord-
         ance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  -- committee discharged, bill
         amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
         tee
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to insurance fraud
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Alice's Law".
    2    S 2. Section 176.15 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 515 of the
    3  laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
    4  S 176.15 Insurance fraud in the fourth degree.
    5    A person is guilty of insurance fraud in the fourth degree when he  OR
    6  SHE commits a fraudulent insurance act and:
    7    (A)  thereby  wrongfully  takes,  obtains or withholds, or attempts to
    8  wrongfully take, obtain or withhold property with a value in  excess  of
    9  one thousand dollars; OR
   10    (B)  OPERATES  A MOTOR VEHICLE AND INTENTIONALLY CAUSES OR ATTEMPTS TO
   11  CAUSE A COLLISION INVOLVING A MOTOR VEHICLE.
   12    Insurance fraud in the fourth degree is a class E felony.
   13    S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   14  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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