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Assembly Bill A8355

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Authorizes the fiduciary of a decedent to take control of certain web site accounts of the decedent

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2015-A8355 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1741
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Estates, Powers and Trusts Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง11-1.1, EPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9317, S6629
2013-2014: A6034, S2429, S6532
2017-2018: A3308, S702
2019-2020: A3136, S3529
2021-2022: S5961

2015-A8355 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the fiduciary of a decedent to take control of certain web site accounts of the decedent.

2015-A8355 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  8355

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             August 5, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ, MILLER, ROBINSON, LUPARDO, COLTON, GALEF,
  CRESPO, ZEBROWSKI, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  CERET-
  TO,  HIKIND,  McDONOUGH,  McKEVITT  --  read  once and referred to the
  Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT to amend the estates, powers  and  trusts  law,  in  relation  to
  authorizing the fiduciary of a decedent to take control of certain web
  site accounts of the decedent

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (b) of section 11-1.1 of the estates, powers  and
trusts  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new  subparagraph 23 to read as
follows:
  (23) UNLESS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED BY THE WILL OR COURT ORDER,  TO  TAKE
CONTROL  OF,  CONDUCT, CONTINUE OR TERMINATE ANY ACCOUNT OF THE DECEDENT
ON ANY SOCIAL  NETWORKING  WEB  SITE,  MICROBLOGGING  OR  SHORT  MESSAGE
SERVICE WEB SITE OR EMAIL SERVICE WEB SITE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03413-01-5

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