Requires the office of victim services to immediately take such actions as are necessary to avoid the wasting of the assets until the expiration of all applicable statutes of limitation for a crime victim to bring a civil action to recover money or damages from such assets.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10107
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. KAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to preventing the wasting
of assets subject to a potential civil action by a crime victim
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 632-a of the
2 executive law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (c) The office, upon receipt of notice of a contract, an agreement to
5 pay or payment of profits from a crime or funds of a convicted person
6 pursuant to paragraph (a) or (b) of this subdivision, or upon receipt of
7 notice of funds of a convicted person from the superintendent, sheriff
8 or municipal official of the facility where the incarcerated individual
9 or prisoner is confined pursuant to section one hundred sixteen or five
10 hundred-c of the correction law, shall notify all known crime victims of
11 the existence of such profits or funds at their last known address.
12 Upon receipt of notice pursuant to this paragraph, the office shall
13 immediately take such actions as are necessary to avoid the wasting of
14 the assets identified in such notice, in any manner consistent with
15 subdivision six of this section, until the expiration of all applicable
16 statutes of limitation for a crime victim to bring a civil action to
17 recover money or damages from such assets as described in subdivision
18 three of this section.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
20 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14475-01-6
