New York A 1534: Provides for the filling of vacancies in the office of lieutenant-governor by appointment of the governor subject to confirmation by the senate and assembly

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A01534 Summary:

BILL NOA01534 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBrown K

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COSPNSRBrown E, Manktelow, McDonough, Hawley, DeStefano

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§621, 631 & 632, Exec L

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Requires a defendant who causes the death of a person with children due to driving while intoxicated or impaired to pay for child support of such children until they reach the age of 18 years old.

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BILL NOA01534 

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01/10/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1534

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Governmental Operations

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring a defendant
 who causes the death of a person with children due to driving while
 intoxicated or impaired to pay for child support

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Tsakos' Law".
 2 § 2. Subdivisions 5 and 11 of section 621 of the executive law,
 3 subdivision 5 as amended by chapter 189 of the laws of 2018 and subdivi-
 4 sion 11 as amended by chapter 178 of the laws of 2019, are amended to
 5 read as follows:
 6 5. "Victim" shall mean (a) a person who suffers personal physical
 7 injury as a direct result of a crime; (b) a person who is the victim of
 8 either the crime of (1) unlawful imprisonment in the first degree as
 9 defined in section 135.10 of the penal law, (2) kidnapping in the second
 10 degree as defined in section 135.20 of the penal law, (3) kidnapping in
 11 the first degree as defined in section 135.25 of the penal law, (4)
 12 menacing in the first degree as defined in section 120.13 of the penal
 13 law, (5) criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation as
 14 defined in section 121.11 of the penal law, (6) harassment in the second
 15 degree as defined in section 240.26 of the penal law, (7) harassment in
 16 the first degree as defined in section 240.25 of the penal law, (8)
 17 aggravated harassment in the second degree as defined in subdivision
 18 three or five of section 240.30 of the penal law, (9) aggravated harass-
 19 ment in the first degree as defined in subdivision two of section 240.31
 20 of the penal law, (10) criminal contempt in the first degree as defined
 21 in subdivision (b) or subdivision (c) of section 215.51 of the penal
 22 law, (11) stalking in the fourth, third, second or first degree as
 23 defined in sections 120.45, 120.50, 120.55 and 120.60 of the penal law,
 24 (12) labor trafficking as defined in section 135.35 of the penal law,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03087-01-5

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 1 (13) sex trafficking as defined in section 230.34 of the penal law; or
 2 (14) sex trafficking of a child as defined in section 230.34-a of the
 3 penal law; a vulnerable elderly person or an incompetent or physically
 4 disabled person as defined in section 260.31 of the penal law who incurs
 5 a loss of savings as defined in subdivision twenty-four of this section;
 6 or a person who has had a frivolous lawsuit filed against them; (c) a
 7 child victim of a person or persons who died as a direct result of
 8 either the crime of (1) vehicular manslaughter in the second degree as
 9 defined in section 125.12 of the penal law, (2) vehicular manslaughter
 10 in the first degree as defined in section 125.13 of the penal law, or
 11 (3) aggravated vehicular homicide as defined in section 125.14 of the
 12 penal law.
 13 11. For purposes of this article "child victim" shall mean a person
 14 less than eighteen years of age who suffers physical, mental or
 15 emotional injury, or loss or damage, as a direct result of a crime or
 16 any violation listed in subdivision twelve of section six hundred thir-
 17 ty-one of this article, or as a result of witnessing a crime or any
 18 violat