A 48: Prohibits a distributive share from passing to a person convicted of committing or attempting to commit a sex offense.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 48 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, HAWLEY, TAGUE, MANKTELOW, GALLAHAN, LEMONDES, BRABENEC -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. K. BROWN, DeSTEFANO, DiPIETRO, PALMESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the estates, powers and trusts law, in relation to the distribution of a decedent's estate The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The estates, powers and trusts law is amended by adding a 2 new section 4-1.7 to read as follows: 3 § 4-1.7 Disqualification of certain persons from taking a distributive 4 share 5 (a) No distributive share in the estate of a decedent shall be allowed 6 to a person convicted of committing or attempting to commit a sex 7 offense defined in article one hundred thirty of the penal law where the 8 victim was the decedent. 9 (b) In the event that a person is disqualified from taking a distribu- 10 tive share in the estate of a decedent, under this section, the estate 11 of such decedent shall be distributed in accordance with 4-1.1 as though 12 such person had predeceased the decedent. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 14 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. LBD00135-01-5