New York State Assembly

 
•  Summary 
 
•  Actions 
 
•  Floor Votes 
 
•  Memo 
 
•  Text 

S05734 Summary:

S05734 Actions:

S05734 Floor Votes:

S05734 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         5734--A
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      June 14, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the criminal procedure law and the insurance law, in

          relation to charitable  bail  organizations;  and  providing  for  the
          repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 500.10 of the criminal procedure law is amended  by
     2  adding an new subdivision 21 to read as follows:
     3    21.  "Charitable  bail  organization"  means a non-profit organization
     4  organized under section 501 (c) 3 of title 26 of the United States code,
     5  registered as a charity pursuant to article  seven-A  of  the  executive
     6  law,  and  organized  for  the purpose of posting cash bail on behalf of
     7  poor persons. A charitable cash bail organization  shall  not  charge  a
     8  premium  nor receive compensation for cash bail given or provided pursu-

     9  ant to this chapter.
    10    § 2. Paragraph 1 of subsection (a) of section 6801  of  the  insurance
    11  law is amended to read as follows:
    12    (1)  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation, other than a charitable bail
    13  organization as defined in subdivision twenty-one of section  500.10  of
    14  the criminal procedure law, in any court having criminal jurisdiction or
    15  in any criminal action or proceeding who shall for another deposit money
    16  or  property  as  bail  or  execute as surety any bail bond who within a
    17  period of one month prior thereto shall have  made  such  a  deposit  or
    18  given such bail in more than two cases not arising out of the same tran-
    19  saction  shall  be  deemed to be doing a bail bond business and doing an
    20  insurance business as defined in article eleven of this chapter.
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11896-03-1
        S. 5734--A                          2
 
     1    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     2  have become a law and shall expire September 1, 2014 when upon such date
     3  the provisions of this act shall be deemed repealed.