A 3800: Establishes the crime of staging a construction site accident which is a class E felony.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3800 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, HYNDMAN, HEVESI, LUCAS, LAVINE, BLUMEN- CRANZ, BENDETT, DINOWITZ, BRABENEC, BLANKENBUSH, JACOBSON, STECK, ANGELINO, STERN, TAPIA, PAULIN, SLATER, LUNSFORD -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of staging a construction site accident The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 176.85 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 176.85 Staging a construction site accident. 4 A person is guilty of staging a construction site accident when, with 5 intent to commit and in furtherance of a fraudulent insurance act, such 6 person enters a construction site and intentionally stages an accident 7 on such site with the intent to file an insurance claim, or directs, 8 hires, requests, encourages, orchestrates or invites another individual 9 to enter a construction site and intentionally stage an accident on such 10 site with the intent to file an insurance claim. 11 Staging a construction site accident is a class E felony. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 13 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07801-01-5