STATE OF NEW YORK
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3985
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, MOSLEY, OTIS, BUCHWALD -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. ABBATE, ABINANTI, ARROYO, BARCLAY, COLTON, COOK,
CROUCH, DINOWITZ, FINCH, GALEF, GIGLIO, GOODELL, GUNTHER, HAWLEY,
LALOR, LAVINE, MALLIOTAKIS, McDONOUGH, MONTESANO, NOLAN, PALMESANO,
PERRY, RAIA, RIVERA, SOLAGES, TITUS -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to staging a motor vehicle
accident
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 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding two new sections 176.75 and
3 176.80 to read as follows:
4 § 176.75 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree.
5 A person is guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second
6 degree when, with intent to commit and in furtherance of a fraudulent
7 insurance act, he or she operates a motor vehicle and intentionally
8 causes a collision involving a motor vehicle.
9 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree is a class E
10 felony.
11 § 176.80 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the first degree.
12 A person is guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the first
13 degree when he or she commits the offense of staging a motor vehicle
14 accident in the second degree and thereby causes serious physical injury
15 or death to another person, other than a participant in such offense.
16 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the first degree is a class D
17 felony.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
19 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.
LBD07501-01-9