Bill Text: NY A03281 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a police safety equipment grant program to provide for services and expenses related to police safety equipment; directs a sum of $30,000,000 to be appropriated to such program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-27 - referred to governmental operations [A03281 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A03281-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3281

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 27, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SMITH, ANGELINO, CHANG, NOVAKHOV, MANKTELOW,
          MIKULIN, MORINELLO, MILLER,  TANNOUSIS,  BLANKENBUSH,  RA,  PALMESANO,
          BRABENEC,  DeSTEFANO  --  read  once  and referred to the Committee on
          Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  creating  the  police
          safety equipment grant program; and making an appropriation therefor

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

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  839-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  839-a.  Police  safety  equipment  grant  program.  There is hereby
     4  created within the division of criminal justice services a police safety
     5  equipment grant program to be administered by the commissioner to  award
     6  grants  to  provide  for  services and expenses related to police safety
     7  equipment including, but not limited to, bullet resistant vests, ballis-
     8  tic vehicle door panels, riot  shields,  conducted  energy  devices  and
     9  portable  electronic tablets.  A grant may be awarded upon submission of
    10  an application to the commissioner. Such application for a  grant  shall
    11  demonstrate  a  specific need for an award of a grant to provide protec-
    12  tive equipment for police officers as defined in  section  1.20  of  the
    13  criminal procedure law.
    14    § 2. The sum of thirty million dollars ($30,000,000), or so much ther-
    15  eof  as  may  be  necessary, is hereby appropriated to the police safety
    16  equipment grant program as established pursuant to section 839-a of  the
    17  executive law from any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appro-
    18  priated  and  made  immediately  available  to  the division of criminal
    19  justice services for distribution to local law enforcement agencies  for
    20  the  purposes  of  carrying  out the provisions of this act. Such moneys
    21  shall be payable on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers
    22  certified or approved by the commissioner of criminal  justice  services
    23  in the manner prescribed by law.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01498-01-5