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Jan 07, 2009 |
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Senate Bill S156
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-S156 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Codes
- Law Section:
- Penal Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง165.30, Pen L
- Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
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2009-S156 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S156 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the penal law, in relation to increasing the criminal penalty for fraudulent accosting from class A misdemeanor to class E felony SUMMARY : This bill would amend section 165.30 of the Penal Law to increase the criminal penalty for fraudulent accosting from Class A misdemeanor to Class E felony. JUSTIFICATION : Confidence games, by their very nature, fall into that category of crimes least reported. This fact, coupled with the difficulties in detecting many of the schemes, has proven to be a particularly vexing problem for law enforcement. The problem takes on added seriousness because the elderly are often the victims and are the least likely to afford the loss of substantial amounts of money. The apparent success of confidence games is dramatically shown when compared, on a monetary basis, to the highly visible crime of a bank robbery. Statewide, over $2 million a year is taken in bank robberies; however, confidence schemes steal an equal amount of money.
2009-S156 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 156 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 7, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to increasing the criminal penalty for fraudulent accosting from class A misdemeanor to class E felony THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The closing paragraph of section 165.30 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 772 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows: Fraudulent accosting is a class [A misdemeanor] E FELONY. S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02050-01-9
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