Provides that anyone who directs, hires, requests, encourages, orchestrates or invites another individual to cause a collision involving a motor vehicle shall be guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5232
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 19, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of staging a
motor vehicle accident in the second degree
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 176.75 of the penal law, as added by chapter 151 of
2 the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 176.75 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree.
4 A person is guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second
5 degree when, with intent to commit and in furtherance of a fraudulent
6 insurance act, [he or she] such person operates a motor vehicle and
7 intentionally causes a collision involving a motor vehicle, or directs,
8 hires, requests, encourages, orchestrates or invites another individual
9 to cause a collision involving a motor vehicle.
10 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree is a class E
11 felony.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07461-01-5
