STATE OF NEW YORK
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2056
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 13, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to increasing the time
period for filing a claim with the office of victim services; and
providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 625 of the executive law, as
2 amended by section 10 of part A-1 of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 2. A claim must be filed by the claimant not later than [one year]
5 twenty years after the occurrence or discovery of the crime upon which
6 such claim is based, [one year] twenty years after a court finds a
7 lawsuit to be frivolous, or not later than [one year] twenty years after
8 the death of the victim, provided, however, that upon good cause shown,
9 the office may extend the time for filing. The office shall extend the
10 time for filing where the claimant received no notice pursuant to
11 section six hundred twenty-five-a of this article and had no knowledge
12 of eligibility pursuant to section six hundred twenty-four of this arti-
13 cle.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
15 have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed one year after
16 such effective date; provided that services may continue and benefits be
17 paid in the event the claimant elects to participate beyond such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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