Bill Text: NY A06452 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expedites the distributions of funds for the supervision and treatment services for juveniles program; requires that eligible municipalities receive the sum equivalent to at least their last approved supervision and treatment services for juveniles program plan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A06452 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06452-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6452

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 11, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES, HEVESI -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Ways and Means

        AN ACT to amend  the  executive  law,  in  relation  to  expediting  the
          distributions  of funds for the supervision and treatment services for
          juveniles program

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

     1    Section  1.  Section 529-b of the executive law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, state funds  appro-
     4  priated  for   the  supervision  and  treatment  services  for juveniles
     5  program shall be distributed to an eligible municipality for services to
     6  divert youth at risk of, alleged  to  be,  or  adjudicated  as  juvenile
     7  delinquents,  or  youth alleged to be or convicted as youthful offenders
     8  or adolescent offenders from placement in detention  or  in  residential
     9  care  on an annual basis, subject to available appropriations.  Eligible
    10  municipalities shall receive the sum equivalent to at least  their  last
    11  approved  supervision  and treatment services for juveniles program plan
    12  for the purposes of implementing the program and to divert youth at risk
    13  of, alleged to be, or adjudicated  as  juvenile  delinquents,  or  youth
    14  alleged to be or convicted as youthful offenders or adolescent offenders
    15  from  placement  in  detention or in residential care. Such annual allo-
    16  cations shall not be contingent on submitting  an  approved  supervision
    17  and  treatment  services for juveniles program plan in the current year,
    18  and such annual allocations shall not prevent an  eligible  municipality
    19  from  seeking funds for supervision and treatment services for juveniles
    20  program plan in the current year. At least fifty percent  of  the  funds
    21  allocated  must  be  provided  by the eligible county to community based
    22  organizations who work with youth who are at risk of, alleged to be,  or
    23  adjudicated as juvenile delinquents, or youth alleged to be or convicted
    24  as youthful offenders or adolescent offenders.
    25    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately  and shall apply to
    26  distributions of state funds appropriated for the supervision and treat-
    27  ment services  for juveniles  program  on and after its effective date.

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