Bill Text: NY A03380 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the office of children and family services and facilitating the use of alternatives to detention programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-07 - enacting clause stricken [A03380 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03380-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3380
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 22, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. SCARBOROUGH, CAMARA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
         of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children  and
         Families
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the office of children
         and  family services and facilitating use of alternatives to detention
         programs
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivisions  9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 of section
    2  501 of the executive law, subdivisions 12, 13 and 14  as  renumbered  by
    3  chapter 465 of the laws of 1992, subdivision 16 as renumbered by chapter
    4  170 of the laws of 1994, are renumbered subdivisions 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,
    5  15, 16 and 17 and a new subdivision 9 is added to read as follows:
    6    9.  (A)  TO ENCOURAGE AND PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL SOCIAL
    7  SERVICES DISTRICTS AND TO ACHIEVE MAXIMUM UTILIZATION OF ALTERNATIVE  TO
    8  DETENTION AND PLACEMENT PROGRAMS AND TO PROMOTE EFFICIENCY IN THE DELIV-
    9  ERY  OF SERVICES PROVIDED TO PERSONS ALLEGED OR DETERMINED TO BE IN NEED
   10  OF SUPERVISION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE SEVEN OF THE FAMILY COURT ACT AND FOR
   11  PERSONS ALLEGED OR DETERMINED TO BE  JUVENILE  DELINQUENTS  AT  RISK  OF
   12  DETENTION  OR  PLACEMENT  PURSUANT  TO ARTICLE THREE OF THE FAMILY COURT
   13  ACT. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION,  SUCH  PROGRAMS  MAY  INCLUDE
   14  PROGRAMS  WITH  THE  GOAL  OF  REDUCING  RISK  BEHAVIORS AMONG YOUTH AND
   15  PROMOTING POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT.
   16    (B) INTER-COUNTY UTILIZATION OF PROGRAMS AND SERVICES SHALL BE ENCOUR-
   17  AGED BY THE OFFICE TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE AND TO PROMOTE THE  MAXIMI-
   18  ZATION  OF  RESOURCES.  THE OFFICE SHALL PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO
   19  COUNTIES WHICH SHALL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, IDENTIFYING PROGRAMS
   20  AND SERVICES FOR INTER-COUNTY UTILIZATION, MAKING ANY  FEASIBLE  PROGRAM
   21  MODIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE INTER-COUNTY UTILIZATION, AND ASSIST-
   22  ING  THE COLLABORATION OF COUNTIES AND COUNTY AGENCIES WITHIN A REGIONAL
   23  AREA. FOR THE PURPOSES OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION,  INTER-COUNTY  UTILIZATION
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08038-01-5
       A. 3380                             2
    1  SHALL  MEAN  THE  COOPERATIVE  SHARING  OF  ALTERNATIVE TO DETENTION AND
    2  PLACEMENT PROGRAMS, SO THAT YOUTH MAY UTILIZE SUCH PROGRAMS OUTSIDE  HIS
    3  OR HER OWN COUNTY RESIDENCE.
    4    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.