Requires the office of victim services to immediately take such actions as are necessary to avoid the wasting of the assets until the expiration of all applicable statutes of limitation for a crime victim to bring a civil action to recover money or damages from such assets.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10107
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 2, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. KAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to preventing the wasting
of assets subject to a potential civil action by a crime victim
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 632-a of the
executive law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended
to read as follows:
(c) The office, upon receipt of notice of a contract, an agreement to
pay or payment of profits from a crime or funds of a convicted person
pursuant to paragraph (a) or (b) of this subdivision, or upon receipt of
notice of funds of a convicted person from the superintendent, sheriff
or municipal official of the facility where the incarcerated individual
or prisoner is confined pursuant to section one hundred sixteen or five
hundred-c of the correction law, shall notify all known crime victims of
the existence of such profits or funds at their last known address.
UPON RECEIPT OF NOTICE PURSUANT TO THIS PARAGRAPH, THE OFFICE SHALL
IMMEDIATELY TAKE SUCH ACTIONS AS ARE NECESSARY TO AVOID THE WASTING OF
THE ASSETS IDENTIFIED IN SUCH NOTICE, IN ANY MANNER CONSISTENT WITH
SUBDIVISION SIX OF THIS SECTION, UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF ALL APPLICABLE
STATUTES OF LIMITATION FOR A CRIME VICTIM TO BRING A CIVIL ACTION TO
RECOVER MONEY OR DAMAGES FROM SUCH ASSETS AS DESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISION
THREE OF THIS SECTION.
§ 2. 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.
LBD14475-01-6
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