NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4584

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2025-S4584 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5443
Current Committee:: Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:: Executive Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§623, 624, 625-a & 631, Exec L

2025-S4584 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the office of victim services to publicize programs offered by the office and to include certain information in annual reports to the governor and the legislature and to make such reports public on the office's website; makes alterations to the amounts of and qualifications for awards of compensation to victims of crimes, including good samaritans who are injured.

2025-S4584 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S4584

SPONSOR: SALAZAR
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the executive law, in relation to reports and awards by
the office of victim services

 
PURPOSE:

To expand access to and facilitate equitable administration of New York
victim compensation funds by requiring public reporting on program
performance; increasing the cap on burial expenses; adjusting compen-
sation payor-of-last resort obligations; and eliminating contributory
conduct assessments from claim decisions.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends subdivision 19 of section 623 of the Executive Law by
introducing a duty of publicization for the Office of Victim Services,
which requires the office to promote the existence of state victim
compensation via criminal justice agencies, victim service providers,

and other public and private agencies serving crime victims.

Section 1 amends subdivision 21 of section 623 of the Executive Law by
introducing paragraphs (a), (b), (c), and (d), each of which require the
Office of Victim Services to disclose specific content and data regard-
ing the funding of crime victim service programs, victim compensation
performance measures, victimization reporting, and publicization of
victim compensation benefits.

Section 2 amends paragraph k and introduces a new paragraph (1) to
section 624 of the Executive Law by simplifying language regarding
sibling and stepsibling eligibility and expanding crime scene cleanup
coverage for Office of Victim Services Awards.

Section 3 amends subdivisions 1 and 1-a of section 625-A of the Execu-
tive Law by clarifying the Office of Victim Services' statutory obli-
gation to distribute information to criminal justice agencies, hospitals
and other appropriate locations concerning the existence of state
compensation benefits.

Section 4 amends subdivision 2 of section 631 of the Executive Law by
increasing the statutory cap on burial expenses from six thousand to
twelve thousand dollars.

Section 4 amends subdivision 4 of section 631 of the Executive Law by
providing the Office of Victim Services the discretion to disregard
certain collateral sources, such as private insurance, that are not
federal or federally financed state and local programs. Additionally,
Section 2 eliminates private donations as a collateral source that the
Office of Victim Services may consider when determining the amount of a
victim compensation award.

Section 4 amends subdivision 5 of section 631 by removing the require-
ment that the Office of Victim Services determine whether a victim of a
crime contributed to the infliction of their own injury.

 
JUSTIFICATION:
In 1984, Congress established the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) to provide
federal oversight and support to state-administered victim compensation
programs. Under VOCA, the Department of Justice's Office for Victims of
Crime (DOJ OVC) was created to administer the Crime Victims Fund, which
consists of dollars collected via fines, fees, and settlement agreements
associated with federal crimes. A significant percentage of these funds
directly compensates crime victims for their financial losses resulting
from victimization, such as medical and counseling expenses, lost wages,
burial costs, and temporary housing. Victims and survivors of crime must
satisfy eligibility criteria that vary across the states, but generally
there are a few core requirements: (1) physical injury; (2) reporting of
the crime; (3) a lack of direct or contributory involvement in the
subject crime; and (4) the absence of collateral sources that might
otherwise compensate for victim and survivor expenses.

Though victim compensation programs are intended, to assist in the prac-
tical consequences of victimization, current statutory and regulatory
regimes do not adequately meet the needs of victims. For example, only
one in five crime survivors is aware that post-victimization funds
exist, according to the National Alliance of Trauma Recovery Centers.
Further, only one in twelve crime survivors actually receive compen-
sation to recover from their victimization, according to the Alliance
for Safety and Justice. This overwhelming lack of awareness and access
to victim compensation strongly indicates that program promotion has not
been prioritized.

Even in those circumstances when a crime survivor does receive compen-
sation, certain expense caps fall short of the costs that victims actu-
ally incur. Currently, the State of New York may pay a maximum of six-
thousand dollars under a victim compensation claim for burial expenses.
This six-thousand dollar cap, however, does not account for economic
inflation and the actual average cost of a funeral. The New York City
Bar Association, for instance, reported that the average price of a
funeral is around ten-thousand dollars.  Additionally, the National
Funeral Directors Association found that the costs of funerals have
risen six percent since 2021 alone. Thus, the current statutory cap is
insufficient to appropriately meet the needs of victims and survivors.

These statutory and regulatory inadequacies are worsened by substantive
contributory conduct provisions that force programs to assess a victim's
behavior before and during their victimization. Contributory conduct
assessments follow an opaque process and are often subjective in nature,
informed by the biases of different actors throughout the criminal
justice system. According to the Associated Press, for instance, Black
applicants in the State of New York are more likely to be denied under
the logic that their own behavior provoked victimization. Indeed, when a
crime survivor is denied pursuant to contributory conduct in New York,
the victim is told that they are not an "innocent victim of crime" and
therefore cannot be eligible for compensation. Conspicuously, there is
no federal victim compensation provision that mandate such contributory
conduct assessments.

Federal law, however, does require state victim compensation programs to
be the "payor-of-last resort," meaning federal and federally financed
state programs must be considered collateral sources where they would
otherwise cover expenses eligible for state compensation.  Despite
VOCA's specific prescription on collateral sources, some compensation
programs take an expansive view of the payor-of-last resort obligation,
extending their consideration of collateral sources to include private
donations and crowdfunding. DOJ OVC in particular has issued clarifying
guidance that discusses the unfairness of using crowdfunding for collat-
eral source assessments, noting that consideration of such private
donations is functionally similar to means testing, which VOCA does not
require. DOJ OVC further added that crowdfunding campaigns are frequent-
ly not controlled by the benefitting victims and survivors, nor are they
always organized to pay for expenses that victim compensation would
cover. Federal law is therefore more permissive on the payor-of-last
resort obligations that it imposes as a condition of receiving compen-
sation funding from DOJ OVC. Accordingly, this bill would reconcile New
York's compensation statute with the more limited requirements of feder-
al law and eliminate consideration of private donations as a collateral
source.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

2025-S4584 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4584
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 7, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- 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 reports and awards by
   the office of victim services
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 623 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 18-a to read as follows:
   18-A.  TO  PUBLICIZE  THROUGH THE OFFICE, STATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL
 CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCIES, STATEWIDE COALITIONS, VICTIM SERVICE  PROVID-
 ERS,  SURVIVOR  SUPPORT  AGENCIES,  HOSPITALS, MEDICAL, MENTAL HEALTH OR
 OTHER COUNSELING SERVICE PROVIDERS, LOCAL PROGRAMS  FOR  CRIME  VICTIMS,
 AND  OTHER  PUBLIC  OR  PRIVATE  AGENCIES, THE EXISTENCE OF THE PROGRAMS
 FUNDED BY THE OFFICE, INCLUDING THE  PROCEDURES  FOR  OBTAINING  COMPEN-
 SATION  FROM  THE OFFICE AS DEFINED IN SECTION SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE-A
 OF THIS ARTICLE.
   § 2. Subdivision 20 of section 623 of the executive law, as amended by
 chapter 489 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   20. To render [each year] ANNUALLY to the governor and [to] the legis-
 lature, AND TO THE PUBLIC VIA THE OFFICE'S WEBSITE, on or before  Decem-
 ber  first  of  each  year,  a written report on the office's activities
 including, but not limited to,  specific  information  on  each  of  the
 subdivisions of this section. [Such]
   (A)  THE ANNUAL report shall also include but not be limited to infor-
 mation regarding crime victim service programs, including:
   [(1)] (I) the programs funded by the office;
   [(2)]  (II)  other  sources  of  funding  for  crime  victims  service
 programs;
   [(3)]  (III)  an  assessment  of  the adequacy of the current level of
 appropriation to the office  to  meet  the  reasonable  needs  of  crime
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08947-01-5

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 victims  service  programs for funding under section six hundred thirty-
 one-a of this article; and
   [(4)] (IV) an estimate of the reasonable needs of programs in the next
 fiscal year.
   (B)  THE ANNUAL REPORT SHALL ALSO INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO INFOR-
 MATION REGARDING THE OFFICE'S PERFORMANCE MEASURES, INCLUDING:
   (I) THE NUMBER OF CLAIM APPLICATIONS FILED WITH THE OFFICE;
   (II) THE NUMBER  OF  CLAIMS  ACCEPTED,  INCLUDING  DISAGGREGATED  DATA
 DENOTING THE CLAIMS ACCEPTED BY TYPE, FOR ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATIONS;
   (III)  THE  NUMBER  OF  CLAIMS  REJECTED, INCLUDING DISAGGREGATED DATA
 DENOTING THE CATEGORICAL REASONS FOR CLAIMS REJECTED;
   (IV) THE NUMBER OF CLAIMS RESULTING IN NO AWARD  DECISIONS,  INCLUDING
 DISAGGREGATED  DATA  DENOTING THE CATEGORICAL REASONS FOR NO AWARD DECI-
 SIONS;
   (V) THE NUMBER OF CLAIMS AWARDED, INCLUDING DISAGGREGATED DATA  DENOT-
 ING THE CLAIM TYPE FOR CLAIMS AWARDED;
   (VI)  ANONYMIZED  DATA  DENOTING  THE RACE, GENDER, AGE, SEXUAL ORIEN-
 TATION, AND COUNTY OF RESIDENCE FOR  CLAIM  APPLICATIONS  FILED,  CLAIMS
 ACCEPTED,  CLAIMS  REJECTED, CLAIMS RESULTING IN NO AWARD DECISIONS, AND
 CLAIMS AWARDED;
   (VII) ANONYMIZED DATA DENOTING THE CRIME INVOLVED  IN  CLAIM  APPLICA-
 TIONS  FILED,  CLAIMS  ACCEPTED, CLAIMS REJECTED, CLAIMS RESULTING IN NO
 AWARD DECISIONS, AND CLAIMS AWARDED; AND
   (VIII) THE AVERAGE TIME BETWEEN THE OFFICE RECEIVING  AN  APPLICATION,
 THE DETERMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY, AND THE FIRST AWARD TO THE VICTIM.
   (C) AFTER DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE, PURSUANT TO
 PARAGRAPH  (A) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE, THE
 ANNUAL REPORT SHALL ALSO INCLUDE  BUT  NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO  INFORMATION
 REGARDING THE RECORDS INDICATING THE COMMISSION OF A CRIME, INCLUDING:
   (I)  THE  NUMBER  OF  CLAIMS USING THE RECORDS OF A SUPPORT AGENCY FOR
 SURVIVORS OF CRIME, INCLUDING DISAGGREGATED DATA DENOTING THE  CATEGORI-
 CAL TYPE OF SUPPORT AGENCY FOR SURVIVORS OF CRIME; AND
   (II)  THE  NUMBER  OF  CLAIMS  USING THE RECORDS OF A CRIMINAL JUSTICE
 AGENCY, INCLUDING DISAGGREGATED DATA DENOTING THE  CATEGORICAL  TYPE  OF
 CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY.
   (D)  THE ANNUAL REPORT SHALL ALSO INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO INFOR-
 MATION REGARDING THE OFFICE'S PERFORMANCE OF THE DUTY  OF  PUBLICIZATION
 PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION EIGHTEEN-A OF THIS SECTION.
   §  3.  Paragraphs (i), (j), and (k) of subdivision 1 of section 624 of
 the executive law, paragraph (i) as amended by section 9 of part A-1  of
 chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, paragraph (j) as added by chapter 427 of
 the  laws  of  1999,  and paragraph (k) as amended by chapter 117 of the
 laws of 2017, are amended and a new paragraph (l) is added  to  read  as
 follows:
   (i)  a  surviving  spouse  of  a crime victim who died from causes not
 directly related to the crime when such victim died prior  to  filing  a
 claim  with  the office or subsequent to filing a claim but prior to the
 rendering of a decision by the office. Such award shall  be  limited  to
 out-of-pocket loss incurred as a direct result of the crime; [and]
   (j)  a  spouse,  child  or  stepchild  of  a victim of a crime who has
 sustained personal physical injury as a direct result of a crime[.];
   (k) a surviving spouse,  grandparent,  parent,  stepparent,  guardian,
 [brother,   sister,  stepbrother,  stepsister,]  SIBLING,  STEPSIBLINGS,
 child, stepchild, or grandchild of a victim of a crime  who  died  as  a
 direct  result  of such crime and where such crime occurred in the resi-
 dence shared by such family member or members and the victim[.]; AND
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   (1) ANY PERSON NOT OTHERWISE ELIGIBLE UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION  WHO  HAS
 PAID  FOR  OR  INCURRED  THE CRIME SCENE CLEANUP EXPENSES, PROVIDED THAT
 SUCH PERSON SHALL ONLY BE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE AN AWARD PURSUANT TO  THIS
 ARTICLE FOR CRIME SCENE CLEANUP.
   §  4.  Subdivisions  1  and 1-a of section 625-a of the executive law,
 subdivision 1 as amended by section 15 of part A-1 of chapter 56 of  the
 laws of 2010, and subdivision 1-a as added by chapter 416 of the laws of
 1979, are amended to read as follows:
   1. [Every] THE OFFICE SHALL SUPPLY INFORMATIVE BOOKLETS, PAMPHLETS AND
 OTHER  PERTINENT  WRITTEN  INFORMATION,  INCLUDING INFORMATION CARDS, TO
 EVERY police station, precinct house, SUPPORT AGENCY  FOR  SURVIVORS  OF
 CRIME  AS  DEFINED  IN  PARAGRAPH  (C) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION SIX
 HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE OF THIS  ARTICLE  AFTER  DECEMBER  THIRTY-FIRST,  TWO
 THOUSAND  TWENTY-FIVE,  any  appropriate  location  where a crime may be
 reported and any location required by the rules and regulations  of  the
 office  [shall  have available informative booklets, pamphlets and other
 pertinent  written  information,  including  information  cards,  to  be
 supplied  by  the office], relating to the availability of crime victims
 compensation including all necessary application blanks required  to  be
 filed  with  the  office and shall [display prominently] PROVIDE posters
 giving notification of the existence  and  general  provisions  of  this
 article,  those  provisions  of  the  penal law that prohibit the intim-
 idation of crime victims and the location of the  nearest  crime  victim
 service  program. The office [may] SHALL issue guidelines for the PROMI-
 NENT DISPLAY OF SUCH POSTERS AND THE location of such display [and shall
 provide posters, application forms, information cards and general infor-
 mation]. Every [victim who reports a crime  in  any  manner  whatsoever]
 APPROPRIATE  LOCATION  WHERE  A  CRIME  MAY BE REPORTED shall [be given]
 PROVIDE notice about the rights of crime victims and  the  existence  of
 all relevant local victim's assistance programs and services pursuant to
 section  six hundred twenty-five-b of this article, and [supplied by the
 person  receiving  the  report  with  information,]  SUPPLY  application
 blanks[,]  and  information  cards  which  shall clearly state: (a) that
 crime victims may be eligible for state compensation benefits;  (b)  the
 address  and  phone  number  of the office; (c) that police and district
 attorneys can help protect victims against harassment and  intimidation;
 (d)  the  addresses  and phone numbers of local victim service programs,
 where appropriate, or space for inserting that information; or  (e)  any
 other  information  the  office  deems  appropriate. Such cards SHALL BE
 PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY THE OFFICE  AND  shall  be  designed  by  the
 office  in  consultation  with  local  police[, and shall be printed and
 distributed by the office].  The  office  shall  develop  a  system  for
 distributing a sufficient supply of the information cards referred to in
 this  subdivision,  to  all  the appropriate designated locations, which
 shall include a schedule for meeting that requirement.
   1-a. [Every] THE OFFICE SHALL SUPPLY POSTERS  GIVING  NOTIFICATION  OF
 THE  EXISTENCE  AND  GENERAL  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS  ARTICLE, APPLICATION
 BLANKS, AND GENERAL INFORMATION TO EVERY  general  hospital  established
 under  the  laws  of  this  state[, which] THAT maintains facilities for
 providing out-patient emergency medical care,  AND  EACH  SUCH  HOSPITAL
 shall  display  THE  POSTERS  prominently in its emergency room [posters
 giving notification of the existence  and  general  provisions  of  this
 chapter].    The  board [may] SHALL issue guidelines for the location of
 such display [and shall provide posters, application forms  and  general
 information  regarding the provision of this chapter to each such hospi-
 tal].
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   § 5. Subdivision 2 of section 631 of the executive law, as amended  by
 chapter 233 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Any  award made pursuant to this article shall be in an amount not
 exceeding  out-of-pocket  expenses,  including  indebtedness  reasonably
 incurred  for  medical  or  other  services necessary as a result of the
 injury upon which the claim  is  based;  loss  of  earnings  or  support
 resulting  from  such injury not to exceed thirty thousand dollars; loss
 of savings not to exceed thirty thousand dollars;  burial  expenses  not
 exceeding  [six]  TWELVE  thousand  dollars  [of a victim who died on or
 after November first, nineteen  ninety-six  as  a  direct  result  of  a
 crime];  the  costs of crime scene cleanup and securing of a crime scene
 not  exceeding  twenty-five  hundred  dollars;   reasonable   relocation
 expenses  not  exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars; reasonable employ-
 ment-related transportation expenses, not exceeding twenty-five  hundred
 dollars  and  the unreimbursed cost of repair or replacement of articles
 of essential personal property lost, damaged or destroyed  as  a  direct
 result  of  the crime. An award for loss of earnings shall include earn-
 ings lost by a parent or guardian as a result of the hospitalization  of
 a  child  victim  under  age eighteen for injuries sustained as a direct
 result of a crime.  In addition to the medical or other services  neces-
 sary  as  a result of the injury upon which the claim is based, an award
 may be made for rehabilitative occupational training for the purpose  of
 job  retraining  or  similar employment-oriented rehabilitative services
 based upon the  claimant's  medical  and  employment  history.  For  the
 purpose  of this subdivision, rehabilitative occupational training shall
 include but not be limited to  educational  training  and  expenses.  An
 award  for rehabilitative occupational training may be made to a victim,
 or to a family member of a victim where necessary as a direct result  of
 a  crime.  An award for employment-related transportation expenses shall
 be limited to the time period necessary due  to  the  personal  physical
 injuries  sustained as a direct result of the crime upon which the claim
 is based, as determined by the medical information collected during  the
 investigation of the claim.
   §  6.  Subdivisions  4  and  5 of section 631 of the executive law, as
 amended by section 22 of part A-1 of chapter 56 of  the  laws  of  2010,
 paragraph  (e)  of subdivision 5 as amended by chapter 70 of the laws of
 2020, paragraph (f) of subdivision 5 as added by section 5 of part H  of
 chapter  55  of  the laws of 2017, and paragraph (g) of subdivision 5 as
 added by chapter 494 of the  laws  of  2018,  are  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   4. (A) ANY AWARD MADE PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE REDUCED BY THE
 AMOUNT  OF  ANY PAYMENTS RECEIVED OR TO BE RECEIVED BY THE CLAIMANT AS A
 RESULT OF THE INJURY FROM FEDERAL OR FEDERALLY FINANCED STATE AND  LOCAL
 PROGRAMS.
   (B)  Any award made pursuant to this article [shall] MAY be reduced by
 the amount of any payments received or to be received by the claimant as
 a result of the injury [(a)] (I) from or on behalf  of  the  person  who
 committed  the  crime,  [(b)]  (II) under insurance programs mandated by
 law, [(c) from public funds, (d)] (III) under any contract of  insurance
 wherein  the  claimant  is  the insured or beneficiary, [(e)] (IV) as an
 emergency award pursuant to section six hundred thirty of this article.
   (C) Notwithstanding the [foregoing] PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPHS  (A)  AND
 (B)  OF  THIS SUBDIVISION, where the person injured is a livery operator
 victim, because undue hardship may result to the claimant  if  immediate
 payment  is  not  made,  any award pursuant to paragraphs (f) and (g) of
 subdivision one of section six  hundred  twenty-seven  of  this  article
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 shall be granted without reduction for workers' compensation benefits to
 be received, if any.
   (D)  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPHS (A) AND (B) OF THIS
 SUBDIVISION, ANY AWARD MADE  PURSUANT  TO  THIS  ARTICLE  SHALL  NOT  BE
 REDUCED  BY THE AMOUNT OF ANY PAYMENTS RECEIVED OR TO BE RECEIVED BY THE
 CLAIMANT AS A RESULT OF PRIVATE DONATIONS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED  TO
 FUNDS RAISED THROUGH CROWDFUNDING PLATFORMS.
   5. (a) [In determining the amount of an award, the office shall deter-
 mine  whether, because of his conduct, the victim of such crime contrib-
 uted to the infliction of his injury, and the office  shall  reduce  the
 amount  of  the award or reject the claim altogether, in accordance with
 such determination.
   (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of  this  subdivi-
 sion,  the office shall disregard for this purpose the responsibility of
 the victim for his own injury where the record  shows  that  the  person
 injured was acting as a good samaritan, as defined in this article.
   (c)] Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this article, where
 the  person  injured  acted as a good samaritan, the office may, without
 regard to the financial difficulty of the claimant, make  an  award  for
 out-of-pocket  losses.  Such award may also include compensation for any
 loss of property up to five thousand  dollars  suffered  by  the  victim
 during the course of [his] THEIR actions as a good samaritan.
   [(d)]  (B) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this article,
 where a person acted as a good samaritan, and was  killed  as  a  direct
 result  of  the  crime,  the office may, without regard to the financial
 difficulty of the claimant, make a lump sum award to such  claimant  for
 actual loss of support not to exceed thirty thousand dollars.
   [(e)]  (C) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this article,
 where a police officer or firefighter, both  paid  and  volunteer,  dies
 from  injuries  received  in  the  line  of duty as a direct result of a
 crime, the office may, without regard to the financial difficulty of the
 claimant, make an award for the unreimbursed counseling expenses of  the
 eligible spouse, domestic partner, parents, [brothers, sisters] SIBLINGS
 or  children  of  such  victim,  and/or  the  reasonable burial expenses
 incurred by the claimant.
   [(f) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this  subdivi-
 sion,  the office shall disregard for this purpose the responsibility of
 the victim for his or her own loss of savings.
   (g) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of  this  subdivi-
 sion,  if  the crime upon which the claim is based resulted in the death
 of the victim, the office shall determine whether, because of his or her
 conduct, the victim of such crime contributed to the infliction  of  his
 or  her  injury, and the office may reduce the amount of the award by no
 more than fifty percent, in accordance with such determination.]
   § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

2025-S4584 (ACTIVE) - Details

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