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Senate Bill S5470

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to notice of profits from a crime

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2025-S5470 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6730
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §632-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7774, A8367

2025-S5470 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that an entity which pays funds which are profits from a crime, as defined by statute, to a family member, including a former spouse, of a person charged with or convicted of a crime, give notice of such payment of funds to the office of victim services.

2025-S5470 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5470 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5470
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 21, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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 notice of the profits
   from a crime
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 2 of section 632-a of the
 executive law, as amended by section 24 of part A-1 of chapter 56 of the
 laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) Every person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other
 legal entity, or representative of such person, firm, corporation, part-
 nership, association or entity, which knowingly contracts for, pays,  or
 agrees  to pay: (i) any profits from a crime as defined in paragraph (b)
 of subdivision one  of  this  section,  to  a  person  charged  with  or
 convicted  of  that  crime,  or  to the representative of such person as
 defined in subdivision six of section six  hundred  twenty-one  of  this
 article,  OR TO THE FAMILY OF SUCH PERSON AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR
 OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF THIS  ARTICLE,  OR  TO  THE  FORMER
 SPOUSE  OF  SUCH  PERSON;  or  (ii)  any funds of a convicted person, as
 defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision one of this section, where  such
 conviction  is  for  a  specified crime and the value, combined value or
 aggregate value of the payment or payments of such funds exceeds or will
 exceed ten thousand dollars, shall give written notice to the office  of
 the  payment or obligation to pay as soon as practicable after discover-
 ing that the payment or intended  payment  constitutes  profits  from  a
 crime or funds of a convicted person.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09605-01-5

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