---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requires the office of victim services to provide notification of potential eligibility for awards following the death of a victim of a crime who died as a direct result of such crime"
description: "Requires the office of victim services to provide notification of potential eligibility for crime victims' awards; directs the state police and the municipal police training council to develop procedures for notifying next of kin of available programs and services upon in-person death notifications."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 8881"
citation: "New York S 8881 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Sanders Jr."]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-25"
last_action: "2024-11-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40adc90c-f421-4921-83ac-87ff167086d5"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8881"
source_hash: "65a6a19e9995776bd3834c58a89ac3b36e3896150ddb05ad776c362d4a7e2367"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 8881 (2023-2024) — Requires the office of victim services to provide notification of potential eligibility for awards following the death of a victim of a crime who died as a direct result of such crime

Requires the office of victim services to provide notification of potential eligibility for crime victims' awards; directs the state police and the municipal police training council to develop procedures for notifying next of kin of available programs and services upon in-person death notifications.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S8881** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8881&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Vote — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **59–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James Sanders Jr. — primary (person)
- Iwen Chu — cosponsor (person)
- Lea Webb — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Rolison — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-03-25** REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-06** 1ST REPORT CAL.862
- **2024-05-07** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2024-05-08** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2024-05-22** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2024-05-22** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2024-05-22** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-23** SUBSTITUTED FOR A4973A
- **2024-05-23** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.100
- **2024-05-23** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2024-05-23** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2024-11-15** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2024-11-22** SIGNED CHAP.518 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40adc90c-f421-4921-83ac-87ff167086d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).