STATE OF NEW YORK
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5577
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 25, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. LANZA, RHOADS -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to limiting the provision
of charitable bail to defendants who are first time offenders
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subsection (b) of section 6805 of the insur-
2 ance law, as added by chapter 181 of the laws of 2012, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (1) only deposit money as bail in the amount of two thousand dollars
5 or less for a defendant charged with one or more misdemeanors committed
6 during a single occurrence or transaction, and who has never previously
7 been charged with a crime, provided, however, that such organization
8 shall not execute as surety any bond for any defendant;
9 § 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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