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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 19, 2025
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 Introduced  by Sens. COMRIE, COONEY, ADDABBO, ASHBY, BORRELLO, CANZONER-
   I-FITZPATRICK, GALLIVAN,  LANZA,  MARTINS,  MATTERA,  MURRAY,  O'MARA,
   PALUMBO,  ROLISON,  SEPULVEDA,  SKOUFIS,  TEDISCO  --  read  twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Codes
 AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
   staging a construction site accident
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 176.85 to
 read as follows:
 § 176.85 STAGING A CONSTRUCTION SITE ACCIDENT.
   A PERSON IS GUILTY OF STAGING A CONSTRUCTION SITE ACCIDENT WHEN,  WITH
 INTENT  TO COMMIT AND IN FURTHERANCE OF A FRAUDULENT INSURANCE ACT, SUCH
 PERSON ENTERS A CONSTRUCTION SITE AND INTENTIONALLY STAGES  AN  ACCIDENT
 ON  SUCH  SITE  WITH  THE INTENT TO FILE AN INSURANCE CLAIM, OR DIRECTS,
 HIRES, REQUESTS, ENCOURAGES, ORCHESTRATES OR INVITES ANOTHER  INDIVIDUAL
 TO ENTER A CONSTRUCTION SITE AND INTENTIONALLY STAGE AN ACCIDENT ON SUCH
 SITE WITH THE INTENT TO FILE AN INSURANCE CLAIM.
   STAGING A CONSTRUCTION SITE ACCIDENT IS A CLASS E FELONY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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