A04292 Summary:

BILL NOA04292A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S00065-A
 
SPONSORScarborough
 
COSPNSRRivera P
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add S531-a, Exec L; add S99-u, St Fin L
 
Creates a juvenile justice smart investment program.
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A04292 Actions:

BILL NOA04292A
 
02/02/2011referred to children and families
01/04/2012referred to children and families
01/24/2012amend and recommit to children and families
01/24/2012print number 4292a
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A04292 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A04292 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         4292--A
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 2, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. SCARBOROUGH, P. RIVERA -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on  Children  and  Families  --  recommitted  to  the
          Committee on Children and Families in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,
          sec.  2  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
 

        AN ACT to amend the executive law and the state finance law, in relation
          to establishing a juvenile justice smart investment  program  for  the
          purpose  of  reducing  juvenile  justice  placements  through  program
          modifications and services
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 531-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 531-a. The juvenile justice smart investment program.  1.  There  is
     4  hereby  created  a  juvenile justice smart investment program. Funds for
     5  the juvenile justice smart  investment  program  shall  be  appropriated
     6  pursuant  to  section  ninety-nine-u  of  the state finance law. Amounts

     7  appropriated to the juvenile justice smart investment  program  pursuant
     8  to  this section or section ninety-nine-u of the state finance law shall
     9  be made available to the office of children and  family  services  which
    10  shall  only  use  such  appropriations to fund programs or services that
    11  seek to reduce the number of juvenile  justice  placements  pursuant  to
    12  subdivision  three  or four of section 353.3 of the family court act, or
    13  juvenile detention as defined  in  subdivision  three  of  section  five
    14  hundred  two  of this article. Such programs and services shall include,
    15  but  not  be  limited  to,  demonstrated  effective  programs  such   as
    16  evidence-based  programs  or services that provide alternatives, or seek

    17  to divert youth from  detention  as  defined  in  subdivision  three  of
    18  section  five  hundred two of this article or residential placement with
    19  the office of children and family services pursuant to subdivision three
    20  or four of section 353.3 of the family court act.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01549-03-1

        A. 4292--A                          2
 
     1    § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-u  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  99-u.  The  juvenile  justice smart investment program account.  1.

     4  There is hereby created a miscellaneous special revenue fund to be known
     5  as the juvenile justice smart investment program account.  The  juvenile
     6  justice  smart  investment  program  account is established in the joint
     7  custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner  of  taxation  and
     8  finance.
     9    2. The juvenile justice smart investment program account shall consist
    10  of  fifty  percent of the savings the state achieves annually, as calcu-
    11  lated in the financial plan as defined in subdivision seven-a of section
    12  two of this chapter, as a result of any actions  taken  in  the  current
    13  state fiscal year or any previous state fiscal years.
    14    3.  Amounts  appropriated  to  the  juvenile  justice smart investment

    15  program pursuant to this section or pursuant  to  section  five  hundred
    16  thirty-one-a  of the executive law shall be made available to the office
    17  of children and family services which shall only use such appropriations
    18  to fund programs or services that seek to reduce the number of  juvenile
    19  justice  placements  pursuant  to  subdivision  three or four of section
    20  353.3 of the family court act,  or  juvenile  detention  as  defined  in
    21  subdivision three of section five hundred two of the executive law. Such
    22  programs and services shall include, but not be limited to, demonstrated
    23  effective  programs  such  as  evidence-based  programs or services that
    24  provide alternatives, or seek to divert youth from detention as  defined

    25  in subdivision three of section five hundred two of the executive law or
    26  residential  placement  with  the office of children and family services
    27  pursuant to subdivision three or four of section  353.3  of  the  family
    28  court act.
    29    § 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2012.
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