STATE OF NEW YORK
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4341
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 21, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- (at request of the Office of Victim
Services) -- 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 awards made by the
office of victim services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 631 of the executive law, as
2 amended by section 22 of part A-1 of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 3. (a) Any award made for loss of earnings or support shall, unless
5 reduced pursuant to other provisions of this article, be in an amount
6 equal to the actual loss sustained, provided, however, that no such
7 award shall exceed six hundred dollars for each week of lost earnings or
8 support. If there are two or more persons entitled to an award as a
9 result of the death of a person which is the direct result of a crime,
10 the award shall be apportioned by the office among the claimants.
11 (b) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this subdivision, any award
12 for loss of earnings or support shall be limited to the victim's income
13 which has been reported to an appropriate taxing authority.
14 (c) If during an investigation of a claim the office determines that
15 such income is not subject to taxation, the office shall request alter-
16 native information to verify such income.
17 (d) Awards with respect to livery operator victims pursuant to para-
18 graphs (f) and (g) of subdivision one of section six hundred twenty-sev-
19 en of this article shall be granted in the amount and in the manner
20 provided therein. The aggregate award for all such losses pursuant to
21 this subdivision, including any awards made pursuant to paragraphs (f)
22 and (g) of subdivision one of section six hundred twenty-seven of this
23 article, shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars. [If there are two or
24 more persons entitled to an award as a result of the death of a person
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 which is the direct result of a crime, the award shall be apportioned by
2 the office among the claimants.]
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
4 have become a law and shall apply to all original awards made on and
5 after such date.
