Senate Bill S6153

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the information necessary to investigate compensation claims

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2019-S6153 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§623 & 631, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7995
2021-2022: S7011

2019-S6153 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the information necessary to investigate compensation claims.

2019-S6153 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6153 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6153
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 20, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  SEPULVEDA  --  (at request of the Office of Victim
   Services) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed  to  be
   committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the information neces-
   sary to investigate compensation claims

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section  623  of  the  executive  law,  as
 amended  by  section 8 of part A-1 of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is
 amended to read as follows:
   4. To request from the division of state police, from county or munic-
 ipal police departments and agencies and from any other state or munici-
 pal department or agency, or public authority, and the same  are  hereby
 authorized  to,  AND  SHALL  provide,  such  assistance and data as will
 enable the office to carry out its functions and duties.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 631 of the executive law, as  separately
 amended  by chapters 189 and 295 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read
 as follows:
   1. No award shall be made unless the office finds that (a) a crime was
 [committed] INDICATED BY CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY RECORDS, (b) such crime
 directly resulted in personal physical injury to or the exacerbation  of
 a preexisting disability, or condition, or death of, the victim, and (c)
 criminal  justice  agency  records  show  that  such  crime was promptly
 reported to the proper authorities; and in no case may an award be  made
 where the criminal justice agency records show that such report was made
 more than one week after the occurrence of such crime unless the office,
 for  good  cause shown, finds the delay to have been justified. Notwith-
 standing the foregoing provisions of this subdivision, in cases  involv-
 ing an alleged sex offense as contained in article one hundred thirty of
 the  penal  law or incest as defined in section 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27
 of the penal law or labor trafficking as defined in  section  135.35  of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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