Assembly Bill A4655

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Enacts the "dog attack victims fair compensation act"

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A4655 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §621, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A8605, A2348

2011-A4655 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "dog attack victims fair compensation act"; makes victims of certain dog attacks eligible for awards by the office of victim services; requires dog control officers to give victims a card with notice thereof.

2011-A4655 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4655

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 4, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. LANCMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  enacting  the  "dog
  attack victims fair compensation act"

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
the "dog attack victims fair compensation act".
  S  2. Subdivision 3 of section 621 of the executive law, as amended by
chapter 710 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
  3. "Crime" shall mean (a) an act committed in  New  York  state  which
would,  if  committed  by  a  mentally  competent criminally responsible
adult, who has no legal exemption or  defense,  constitute  a  crime  as
defined in and proscribed by law; [or]
  (b)  an act committed outside the state of New York against a resident
of the state of New York which would  be  compensable  had  it  occurred
within  the  state  of New York and which occurred in a state which does
not have an eligible crime victim compensation program as such  term  is
defined in the federal victims of crime act of 1984; [or]
  (c)  an  act  of  terrorism,  as  defined in section 2331 of title 18,
United States Code, committed outside of the  United  States  against  a
resident of New York state; OR
  (D)   A   VIOLATION  OF  SUBDIVISION  SEVEN  OF  SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED
TWENTY-THREE OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01877-02-1

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