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Senate Bill S5232

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the crime of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree

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2025-S5232 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3851
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §176.75, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7754, A6816

2025-S5232 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that anyone who directs, hires, requests, encourages, orchestrates or invites another individual to cause a collision involving a motor vehicle shall be guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree.

2025-S5232 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5232 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5232
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 19, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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 the  crime  of  staging  a
   motor vehicle accident in the second degree
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 176.75 of the penal law, as added by chapter 151 of
 the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
 § 176.75 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree.
   A person is guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in  the  second
 degree  when,  with  intent to commit and in furtherance of a fraudulent
 insurance act, [he or she] SUCH PERSON  operates  a  motor  vehicle  and
 intentionally  causes a collision involving a motor vehicle, OR DIRECTS,
 HIRES, REQUESTS, ENCOURAGES, ORCHESTRATES OR INVITES ANOTHER  INDIVIDUAL
 TO CAUSE A COLLISION INVOLVING A MOTOR VEHICLE.
   Staging  a  motor  vehicle  accident in the second degree is a class E
 felony.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07461-01-5

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