New York A 7392: Criminalizes acting as a runner or soliciting or employing a runner to procure patients or clients

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A07392 Summary:

BILL NOA07392 

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SAME ASSAME AS S04874

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Amd §§176.00 & 460.10, add §§176.85 - 176.95, Pen L; amd §700.05, CP L

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Criminalizes acting as a runner or soliciting or employing a runner to procure patients or clients.

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BILL NOA07392 

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03/25/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7392

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 25, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the penal law and the criminal procedure law, in
 relation to criminalizing acting as a runner or soliciting or employ-
 ing a runner to procure patients or clients

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

 1 Section 1. Section 176.00 of the penal law is amended by adding four
 2 new subdivisions 6, 7, 8 and 9 to read as follows:
 3 6. "Provider" means an attorney, a health care professional, an owner
 4 or operator of a health care practice or facility, any person who
 5 creates the impression that they, or their practice can provide legal or
 6 health care services, any person employed or acting on behalf of any
 7 such person, or any person providing management or consulting services
 8 to any such person.
 9 7. "Public media" means telephone directories, professional directo-
 10 ries, newspapers and other periodicals, radio and television, bill-
 11 boards, and mailed or electronically transmitted written communications
 12 that do not involve direct contact with a specific prospective client,
 13 patient, or customer.
 14 8. "Runner" means a person who, for a pecuniary benefit, procures or
 15 attempts to procure a client, patient or customer at the direction of,
 16 request of or in cooperation with a provider whose purpose is to seek to
 17 obtain benefits under a contract of insurance or assert a claim against
 18 an insured or an insurance carrier for providing services to the client,
 19 patient or customer, or to obtain benefits under or assert a claim
 20 against a state or federal health care benefits program or prescription
 21 drug assistance program. "Runner" shall not include (a) a person who
 22 procures or attempts to procure clients, patients or customers for a
 23 provider through public media; (b) a person who refers clients, patients
 24 or customers as otherwise authorized by law; or (c) a person who, as an

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09377-01-5

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 1 agent, broker or employee of a health maintenance organization as
 2 defined in section forty-four hundred one of the public health law,
 3 seeks to sell health maintenance organization coverage or health insur-
 4 ance coverage to an individual or group.
 5 9. "Pecuniary benefit" means goods, money, property, services or
 6 anything of value, or an agreement to confer or receive any such goods,
 7 money, property, services, or thing of value.
 8 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding three new sections 176.85,
 9 176.90 and 176.95 to read as follows:
 10 § 176.85 Unlawful procurement of clients, patients or customers in the
 11 third degree.
 12 A person is guilty of unlawful procurement of clients, patients or
 13 customers in the third degree when such person knowingly:
 14 1. acts as a runner on one or more occasions; or
 15 2. uses, solicits, directs, hires or employs another person to act as
 16 a runner on one or more occasions.
 17 Unlawful procurement of clients, patients or customers in the third
 18 degree is a class A misdemeanor.
 19 § 176.90 Unlawful procurement of clients, patients or customers in the
 20 second degree.
 21 A person is guilty of unlawful procurement of clients, patients or
 22 customers in the second degree when such person knowingly:
 23 1. acts as a runner on one or more occasions for a pecuniary benefit
 24 that in the aggregate exceeds two thousan