Relates to criminal penalties for persons who knowingly advance or profit from prohibited combative sports that result in the injury of any individual.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A2214
SPONSOR: Vanel
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibited
combative sports that result in the injury of an individual
 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Relates to prohibited combative sports that result in the injury of an
individual
 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1(1-a): Establishes the crime of knowingly advancing profits
from a prohibited combative sport that results in the physical injury of
a person. Section 1(1-b): Establishes the crime of knowingly advancing
profits from the same act outlined in 1-a.
Section 2: This act shall take effect on the first of November next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
The amateur fight would have been illegal before the pandemic, but with
coronavirus cases spiking in the city, it risked being a dangerous
underground event
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
03/17/21 referred to codes
01/05/22 referred to codes
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the
date on which it shall have become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2214
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 25, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibited
combative sports that result in the injury of an individual
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1019 of the general business law is amended by
2 adding two new subdivisions 1-a and 1-b to read as follows:
3 1-a. Any person who knowingly advances or profits from a prohibited
4 combative sport which results in the physical injury of any individual,
5 as defined by subdivision nine of section 10.00 of the penal law, shall
6 be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
7 1-b. Any person who knowingly advances or profits from a prohibited
8 combative sport which results in the serious physical injury of any
9 individual, as defined by subdivision ten of section 10.00 of the penal
10 law, shall be guilty of a class D felony.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
12 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03238-01-3