Assembly Bill A7531

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Amends the definitions of criminal enterprise and pattern of criminal activity for the purpose of criminal liability for enterprise corruption

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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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2013-A7531 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5383
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §460.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S3240
2011-2012: S4390
2015-2016: S2144

2013-A7531 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends the definition of "criminal enterprise", for the purpose of criminal liability for enterprise corruption.

2013-A7531 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  7531

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 23, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Codes

AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to definitions of criminal
  enterprise and pattern of criminal activity

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 and paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section
460.10  of  the  penal law, as added by chapter 516 of the laws of 1986,
are amended to read as follows:
  3. "Criminal enterprise" means a group of  persons  sharing  a  common
purpose  of engaging in criminal conduct, associated in an ascertainable
structure [distinct from a pattern] of criminal  activity,  and  with  a
continuity  of  existence[,  structure]  and criminal purpose beyond the
scope of individual criminal incidents.
  (b) are  neither  isolated  incidents,  nor  so  closely  related  and
connected  in  point of time or circumstance of commission as to consti-
tute a SINGLE criminal offense  [or  criminal  transaction,]  as  [those
terms are] defined in section 40.10 of the criminal procedure law; and
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
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.
                                                           LBD11101-01-3


              

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