STATE OF NEW YORK
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2543
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 19, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the liability of a
person who presents false claims for money or property to the state or
a local government
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 4 of section 189 of the state
2 finance law, as amended by section 8 of part A of chapter 56 of the laws
3 of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) This section shall apply to claims, records, [or] statements, and
5 obligations made under the tax law only if (i) the net income or sales
6 of the person against whom the action is brought equals or exceeds one
7 million dollars for any taxable year subject to any action brought
8 pursuant to this article; and (ii) the damages pleaded in such action
9 exceed three hundred and fifty thousand dollars[; and (iii) the person
10 is alleged to have violated paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) or
11 (g) of subdivision one of this section; provided, however, that nothing
12 in this subparagraph shall be deemed to modify or restrict the applica-
13 tion of such paragraphs to any act alleged that relates to a violation
14 of the tax law].
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
16 false claims, records, statements and obligations concealed, avoided or
17 decreased on, prior to, or after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00045-01-1
