STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6980 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 2, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BLAKE, ARROYO, AUBRY, BARRON, CARROLL, DICKENS, D'URSO, GLICK, HYNDMAN, JAFFEE, JEAN-PIERRE, LAVINE, LENTOL, LIFTON, MOSLEY, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, STECK, TAYLOR, VANEL, L. ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, EPSTEIN, HEVESI, RAMOS, TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to charitable bail organ- izations The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 4 of subsection (a) and subsection (b) of section 2 6805 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 181 of the laws of 2012, 3 are amended to read as follows: 4 (4) A charitable bail organization certificate shall be valid for a 5 term of five years from issuance. At the time of application for every 6 such certificate, [~~and for every renewal thereof,~~] an applicant shall 7 pay to the superintendent a sum of [~~one thousand~~] five hundred dollars 8 payable each term or fraction of a term, provided, however, that in his 9 or her discretion, the superintendent may waive such fee. 10 (b) A charitable bail organization shall: 11 (1) only deposit money as bail in the amount of [~~two~~] ten thousand 12 dollars or less for a defendant charged with one or more [~~misdemeanors~~] 13 offenses, as defined in subdivision one of section 10.00 of the penal 14 law, provided, however, that such organization shall not execute as 15 surety any bond for any defendant; 16 (2) only deposit money as bail on behalf of a person who is financial- 17 ly unable to post bail, which may constitute a portion or the whole 18 amount of such bail; and 19 (3) [~~only deposit money as bail in one county in this state. Provided,~~ 20 ~~however, that a charitable bail organization whose principal place of~~ 21 ~~business is located within a city of a million or more may deposit money~~ 22 ~~as bail in the five counties comprising such city; and~~ EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05600-01-9

A. 6980 2 1 ~~(4)~~] not charge a premium or receive compensation for acting as a 2 charitable bail organization. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend- 4 ments to subsection (b) of section 6805 of the insurance law made by 5 section one of this act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it 6 shall have become a law.

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