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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5128
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, HEVESI, CLARK, SHRESTHA, DAVILA -- 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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