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- Substituted by A8630A
- Amended on third reading 6364a
- Vote reconsidered - restored to third reading
- Returned to senate
- Recalled from assembly
- Referred to insurance
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 55–4
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.420
- Notice of committee consideration - requested
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- Referred to finance
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Relates to accurate reporting of crime statistics and excludes certain crime statistics from consideration when making rates of insurance
Vetoed · Sponsor Marcos Crespo
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S6364A
Title of bill
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to accurate reporting of crime statistics; and to amend the insurance law, in relation to excluding certain crime statistics from consideration when making rates of insurance
Purpose or general idea of bill
Excludes crime data or statistics in setting rates of insurance when such data or statistics are as a result of crimes committed in correctional or detention facilities.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1. Amends the executive law by adding a new section, 837-s to require DCJS to report crimes that occur in correctional facilities separately from crimes that occur in public.
Section 2. Amends the insurance law section 2304 subsection (b) paragraph 2 to prohibit insurers from using crime data from correctional facilities in rate setting.
Section 3. Effective Date
Existing law
None.
Justification
According to an article by Dennis Slattery in the New York Daily News on Wednesday, January 15, 2014, crimes that are committed within the Rikers Island Penal Complex are added to the compstat statistics for the 40 Precinct in the Bronx. This artificial inflation of the crime rates in the South Bronx. and in other areas of New York State where prisons and correctional facilities are located, financially impacts the localities because insurers then set their rates higher.
Crimes that are committed within prisons and other correctional facilities should have no impact on the crime statistics of the surrounding area and on the local police precincts and departments. Local police are not assigned to prisons and jails, local law enforcement has no ability whatsoever to prevent prison-based crime or increase their patrols in order to reduce crime.
Likewise, local residents should not be punished through higher insurance rates as a result of crime that takes place in prisons and other correctional facilities.
This bill would prohibit prison based crime from being included in the crime statistics for the local precinct. It would also prohibit insurers from increasing their car and property insurance rates due to crimes committed in prisons.
Prior legislative history
2014: S.6364- Passed Senate- June, 2 2014/A.8630A Amended and recommitted to Codes
Fiscal implications
None
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however that section two of this act shall take effect on the one
hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law and shall apply to policies issued or renewed on or after such effective date.
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