Bill Text: NY A10290 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes the youth justice innovation fund to make funds available to community-based organizations for services and programs with the purpose of youth development and preventing youth arrest and incarceration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-31 - print number 10290a [A10290 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10290-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10290--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 17, 2024
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Solages,
          Hevesi, McDonald, Buttenschon, Gonzalez-Rojas, Bronson, Cruz,  Taylor,
          Clark,  Kelles, Lunsford, Simon, Chandler-Waterman, Bichotte Hermelyn)
          -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on  Ways  and  Means  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to  establishing  the
          youth justice innovation fund

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

     1    Section 1.  The state finance law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  89-gg to read as follows:
     3    §  89-gg. Youth justice innovation fund. 1.  A fund to be known as the
     4  "youth justice innovation fund" is hereby established in the custody  of
     5  the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance.
     6    2. The fund shall consist of fifty million dollars transferred to such
     7  account  pursuant to a plan developed by the director of the budget from
     8  funds made available for the purposes of funding raise the age  require-
     9  ments, and any interest earnings which may accrue from the investment of
    10  monies  in  the  fund.  Nothing contained herein shall prevent the state
    11  from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of the fund as
    12  defined in this section and depositing them into the fund  according  to
    13  law.
    14    3.  Monies  of the fund shall be available to the division of criminal
    15  justice services and shall be provided to community-based  organizations
    16  to  be  expended  for  services  and  programs with the purpose of youth
    17  development and preventing youth arrest  and  incarceration,  including,
    18  but  not  limited  to,  those providing violence-prevention services for
    19  youth, alternatives to detention, placement and  incarceration  programs
    20  for youth, and reentry, education, and employment training and placement
    21  programs  for  youth.  Such  funding  shall  supplement and not supplant
    22  existing state supports for local probation services  under  the  "raise
    23  the age" law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13692-05-4
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     1    4.  On  or before the first day of March of each year, the director of
     2  the division of criminal justice services shall provide a written report
     3  to the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of  the  assembly,
     4  the  minority leader of the senate, the minority leader of the assembly,
     5  the  chair  of  the  senate finance committee, the chair of the assembly
     6  ways and means committee, the chair of the senate  committee  on  codes,
     7  the chair of the assembly committee on codes, the state comptroller, and
     8  the  public.  Such  report shall include how the monies of the fund were
     9  utilized during the preceding calendar year, and shall include:
    10    (a) the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award  process
    11  used for such disbursements;
    12    (b) recipients of awards from the fund;
    13    (c) the amount awarded to each recipient;
    14    (d) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and
    15    (e) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include esti-
    16  mates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and succeed-
    17  ing  fiscal  years,  along with the actual results from the prior fiscal
    18  year.
    19    5. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and  warrant  of
    20  the  comptroller  on  vouchers approved and certified by the director of
    21  the division of criminal justice services.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.