S7232 • 2025

Grants immunity from liability for personal injury and property damage sustained by a crime victim upon the premises of a business or nonprofit seeking assistance

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Sponsor: Michael Gianaris
Last action: 2026-05-29
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Grants immunity from liability for personal injury and property damage sustained by a crime victim upon the premises of a business or nonprofit seeking assistance

Grants immunity from liability for personal injury and property damage sustained by a crime victim upon the premises of a business or nonprofit seeking assistance Grants immunity from liability for personal injury and property damage sustained by a crime victim upon the premises of a business or nonprofit while seeking assistance, except in the case of gross negligence.

What This Bill Does

Grants immunity from liability for personal injury and property damage sustained by a crime victim upon the premises of a business or nonprofit seeking assistance Grants immunity from liability for personal injury and property damage sustained by a crime victim upon the premises of a business or nonprofit while seeking assistance, except in the case of gross negligence.

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Bill History

2026-05-29 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-05-29 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-05-29 Assembly
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
2026-05-14 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-13 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-12 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1014
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
2025-04-04 Senate
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

Official Summary Text

Grants immunity from liability for personal injury and property damage sustained by a crime victim upon the premises of a business or nonprofit seeking assistance
Grants immunity from liability for personal injury and property damage sustained by a crime victim upon the premises of a business or nonprofit while seeking assistance, except in the case of gross negligence.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7232

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      April 4, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. GIANARIS, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the general obligations law,  in  relation  to  granting
          immunity  from liability for personal injury, death or property damage
          incurred by a victim of a crime  while  seeking  assistance  upon  the
          premises of a business entity or not-for-profit corporation

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1.  Section 9-103 of the general obligations law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-A. AN OWNER, LESSEE OR OCCUPANT OF A PREMISES, WHICH IS OPERATED  AS
     4  A BUSINESS ENTITY OR NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION, WHO PROVIDES ASSISTANCE
     5  TO A VICTIM OF A CRIME BY ALLOWING SUCH VICTIM TO REMAIN UPON SUCH PREM-
     6  ISES  FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF  SUMMONING A POLICE OFFICER AND/OR EMERGENCY
     7  MEDICAL PERSONNEL, SHALL ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR OR INCUR LIABILITY
     8  FOR ANY PERSONAL INJURY, DEATH OR PROPERTY DAMAGE SUSTAINED BY THE CRIME
     9  VICTIM WHILE UPON SUCH PREMISES IN THE  COURSE  OF  SEEKING  ASSISTANCE,
    10  UNLESS  IT  IS ESTABLISHED THAT SUCH INJURY OR DEATH WAS CAUSED BY GROSS
    11  NEGLIGENCE ON THE PART OF SUCH BUSINESS ENTITY OR NOT-FOR-PROFIT  CORPO-
    12  RATION.
    13    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01794-01-5