A 7763: Relates to criminal penalties for persons who knowingly advance or profit from prohibited combative sports that result in the injury of any individual.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7763 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY April 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibited combative sports that result in the injury of an individual The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1019 of the general business law is amended by 2 adding two new subdivisions 1-a and 1-b to read as follows: 3 1-a. Any person who knowingly advances or profits from a prohibited 4 combative sport which results in the physical injury of any individual, 5 as defined by subdivision nine of section 10.00 of the penal law, shall 6 be guilty of a class A misdemeanor. 7 1-b. Any person who knowingly advances or profits from a prohibited 8 combative sport which results in the serious physical injury of any 9 individual, as defined by subdivision ten of section 10.00 of the penal 10 law, shall be guilty of a class D felony. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 12 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. LBD11131-01-5