Bill Text: NY A02351 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the sexual assault forensic examiner grant program to award grants to provide statewide access to services provided by sexual assault forensic examiners to victims of sexual assault.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to governmental operations [A02351 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A02351-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2351
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 18, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. WEINSTEIN, GUNTHER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
         A.  ABBATE,  BING,  BRENNAN,  DESTITO,  GALEF, GLICK, JAFFEE, McENENY,
         MILLMAN, PAULIN, PHEFFER, TITONE -- read  once  and  referred  to  the
         Committee on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to amend the public health law and the executive law, in relation
         to establishing the sexual assault forensic examiner grant program
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
    2  2805-u to read as follows:
    3    S  2805-U. SEXUAL ASSAULT FORENSIC EXAMINER GRANT PROGRAM. 1. THERE IS
    4  HEREBY CREATED WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT A SEXUAL ASSAULT FORENSIC  EXAMINER
    5  GRANT  PROGRAM  TO  BE ADMINISTERED BY THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION
    6  WITH THE OFFICE OF VICTIMS SERVICES, TO AWARD GRANTS TO  PROVIDE  STATE-
    7  WIDE  ACCESS TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT TO SERVICES PROVIDED BY SEXUAL
    8  ASSAULT FORENSIC EXAMINERS.
    9    2. A GRANT MAY BE AWARDED UPON SUBMISSION OF  AN  APPLICATION  TO  THE
   10  COMMISSIONER.  SUCH APPLICATION FOR A GRANT SHALL DEMONSTRATE A SPECIFIC
   11  NEED FOR AN AWARD OF A GRANT TO PROVIDE SEXUAL ASSAULT FORENSIC  EXAMIN-
   12  ERS WITH THE TRAINING AND RESOURCES TO ASSIST VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.
   13    S  2.  Section  631  of  the executive law is amended by adding  a new
   14  subdivision 18 to read as follows:
   15    18. SEXUAL  ASSAULT  FORENSIC  GRANTS  SHALL  BE  AVAILABLE  UPON  THE
   16  SUBMISSION  OF  AN APPLICATION TO THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH PURSUANT TO
   17  SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED FIVE-U OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
   18    S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   19  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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