STATE OF NEW YORK
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3800
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, HYNDMAN, HEVESI, LUCAS, LAVINE, BLUMEN-
CRANZ, BENDETT, DINOWITZ, BRABENEC, BLANKENBUSH, JACOBSON, STECK,
ANGELINO, STERN, TAPIA, PAULIN, SLATER, LUNSFORD -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
staging a construction site accident
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 176.85 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 176.85 Staging a construction site accident.
4 A person is guilty of staging a construction site accident when, with
5 intent to commit and in furtherance of a fraudulent insurance act, such
6 person enters a construction site and intentionally stages an accident
7 on such site with the intent to file an insurance claim, or directs,
8 hires, requests, encourages, orchestrates or invites another individual
9 to enter a construction site and intentionally stage an accident on such
10 site with the intent to file an insurance claim.
11 Staging a construction site accident is a class E felony.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
13 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07801-01-5
