Requires that an entity which pays funds which are profits from a crime, as defined by statute, to a family member, including a former spouse, of a person charged with or convicted of a crime, give notice of such payment of funds to the office of victim services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5470
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to notice of the profits
from a crime
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 632-a of the
2 executive law, as amended by section 24 of part A-1 of chapter 56 of the
3 laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Every person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other
5 legal entity, or representative of such person, firm, corporation, part-
6 nership, association or entity, which knowingly contracts for, pays, or
7 agrees to pay: (i) any profits from a crime as defined in paragraph (b)
8 of subdivision one of this section, to a person charged with or
9 convicted of that crime, or to the representative of such person as
10 defined in subdivision six of section six hundred twenty-one of this
11 article, or to the family of such person as defined in subdivision four
12 of section six hundred twenty-one of this article, or to the former
13 spouse of such person; or (ii) any funds of a convicted person, as
14 defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision one of this section, where such
15 conviction is for a specified crime and the value, combined value or
16 aggregate value of the payment or payments of such funds exceeds or will
17 exceed ten thousand dollars, shall give written notice to the office of
18 the payment or obligation to pay as soon as practicable after discover-
19 ing that the payment or intended payment constitutes profits from a
20 crime or funds of a convicted person.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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