Relates to the disposal of property upon a judgment or order of forfeiture; requires a percentage of money from such disposal of property to be deposited into a subaccount of the general fund to be used for law enforcement diversion purposes.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8760
IN SENATE
May 14, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. AMEDORE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules and the state finance
law, in relation to the disposal of property upon a judgment or order
of forfeiture
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (h) of subdivision 2 of
2 section 1349 of the civil practice law and rules, as added by chapter
3 655 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
4 (i) seventy-five percent of such moneys shall be deposited to a law
5 enforcement purposes subaccount of the general fund of the state where
6 the claiming agent is an agency of the state or the political subdivi-
7 sion or public authority of which the claiming agent is a part, to be
8 used for law enforcement use in the investigation of penal law offenses
9 or law enforcement assisted diversion;
10 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 97-w of the state finance law, as
11 amended by chapter 398 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as
12 follows:
13 3. Moneys of the fund, when allocated, shall be available to the
14 commissioner of the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services
15 and shall be used to provide support for (a) funded agencies approved by
16 the New York state office of alcoholism and substance abuse services,
17 [and] (b) local school-based and community programs which provide chemi-
18 cal dependence prevention and education services, and (c) law enforce-
19 ment assisted diversion of individuals with substance use disorders.
20 Consideration shall be given to innovative approaches to providing chem-
21 ical dependence services.
22 § 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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