STATE OF NEW YORK
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6177--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 8, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, MAISEL, P. RIVERA, REILLY, TITONE, WEIS-
ENBERG, ROBERTS, COLTON, GALEF, COOK, MCKEVITT, JEFFRIES, GUNTHER,
STEVENSON, CASTRO, LAVINE, HOOPER, SCARBOROUGH, TITUS, ROBINSON,
BOYLAND, SIMANOWITZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, ABINAN-
TI, ARROYO, BARCLAY, BRENNAN, BURLING, CALHOUN, CERETTO, CLARK, CONTE,
CROUCH, DUPREY, FINCH, GIBSON, GIGLIO, GOODELL, GRAF, HAWLEY, HIKIND,
LOSQUADRO, MAGEE, MALLIOTAKIS, McDONOUGH, McENENY, McLAUGHLIN, MONTES-
ANO, MURRAY, NOLAN, OAKS, PALMESANO, PERRY, RAIA, SALADINO, SCHIMEL,
SWEENEY, TENNEY, TOBACCO, WALTER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accord-
ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to insurance fraud
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Alice's Law".
2 § 2. Section 176.15 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 515 of the
3 laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
4 § 176.15 Insurance fraud in the fourth degree.
5 A person is guilty of insurance fraud in the fourth degree when he or
6 she commits a fraudulent insurance act and:
7 (a) thereby wrongfully takes, obtains or withholds, or attempts to
8 wrongfully take, obtain or withhold property with a value in excess of
9 one thousand dollars; or
10 (b) operates a motor vehicle and intentionally causes or attempts to
11 cause a collision involving a motor vehicle.
12 Insurance fraud in the fourth degree is a class E felony.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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