S09312 Summary:

BILL NOS09312A
 
SAME ASSAME AS A10290-A
 
SPONSORCLEARE
 
COSPNSRGOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, KRUEGER, LIU, PARKER, SALAZAR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §89-gg, St Fin L
 
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.
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S09312 Actions:

BILL NOS09312A
 
05/10/2024REFERRED TO FINANCE
06/03/2024AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE
06/03/2024PRINT NUMBER 9312A
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S09312 Committee Votes:

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S09312 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S09312 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         9312--A
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      May 10, 2024
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sens. CLEARE, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, KRUEGER, LIU,
          PARKER, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
          be committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
 
        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.
    24    4. On or before the first day of March of each year, the  director  of
    25  the division of criminal justice services shall provide a written report
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13692-06-4

        S. 9312--A                          2
 
     1  to  the  temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly,
     2  the minority leader of the senate, the minority leader of the  assembly,
     3  the  chair  of  the  senate finance committee, the chair of the assembly
     4  ways  and  means  committee, the chair of the senate committee on codes,
     5  the chair of the assembly committee on codes, the state comptroller, and
     6  the public. Such report shall include how the monies of  the  fund  were
     7  utilized during the preceding calendar year, and shall include:
     8    (a)  the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award process
     9  used for such disbursements;
    10    (b) recipients of awards from the fund;
    11    (c) the amount awarded to each recipient;
    12    (d) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and
    13    (e) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include esti-
    14  mates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and succeed-
    15  ing fiscal years, along with the actual results from  the  prior  fiscal
    16  year.
    17    5.  Monies  shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
    18  the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by  the  director  of
    19  the division of criminal justice services.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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