Establishes the sexual assault forensic examiner grant program to award grants to provide statewide access to services provided by sexual assault forensic examiners to victims of sexual assault.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1323
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, STECK, HEVESI, COLTON, J. M. GIGLIO --
read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public health law and the executive law, in relation
to establishing the sexual assault forensic examiner grant program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 2805-aa to read as follows:
3 § 2805-aa. Sexual assault forensic examiner grant program. 1. There is
4 hereby created within the department a sexual assault forensic examiner
5 grant program to be administered by the commissioner, in consultation
6 with the crime victims board, to award grants to provide statewide
7 access to victims of sexual assault to services provided by sexual
8 assault forensic examiners.
9 2. A grant may be awarded upon submission of an application to the
10 commissioner. Such application for a grant shall demonstrate a specific
11 need for an award of a grant to provide sexual assault forensic examin-
12 ers with the training and resources to assist victims of sexual assault.
13 § 2. Section 631 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
14 subdivision 19 to read as follows:
15 19. Sexual assault forensic grants shall be available upon the
16 submission of an application to the commissioner of health pursuant to
17 section twenty-eight hundred five-aa of the public health law.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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