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Assembly Bill A5628

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the fine on certain individuals who commit the crime of criminal contempt in the first degree

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2025-A5628 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §80.00, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10216

2025-A5628 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the fine on individuals who commit the crime of criminal contempt in the first degree to up to $150,000 if such crime was wilfully committed persistently and/or egregiously as determined by the court.

2025-A5628 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5628
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, GLICK, HEVESI, SHIMSKY, DeSTEFANO, GIGLIO,
   K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the penal law, in relation to increasing the fine on
   certain individuals who commit the crime of criminal contempt  in  the
   first degree

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 80.00 of the penal law is amended by adding  a  new
 subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8.  WHEN  A  COURT  IMPOSES  A FINE ON A DEFENDANT PURSUANT TO SECTION
 215.51 OF THIS CHAPTER, AND WHERE SUCH DEFENDANT HAS WILFULLY  COMMITTED
 SUCH  CRIME  PERSISTENTLY AND/OR EGREGIOUSLY AS DETERMINED BY THE COURT,
 THE AMOUNT OF THE FINE SPECIFIED IN PARAGRAPH A OF  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF
 THIS  SECTION  MAY  BE  INCREASED TO A TOTAL AMOUNT OF UP TO ONE HUNDRED
 FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06681-01-5

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