Requires the office of the Manhattan district attorney to continue to annually remit forty million dollars of future state sanctioned deferred prosecution agreement funds.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A4422
SPONSOR: Dilan PURPOSE:
This bill would extend the criminal justice discovery compensation fund.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section one of the bill would amend the repeal date to March 31, 2026.
Section two would establish the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
The fiscal year 2020 budget enacted the Criminal Justice Discovery
Compensation Fund to transfer from funds secured by payments associated
with state sanctioned deferred prosecution agreements held with the
Manhattan District Attorney to be made available for local assistance
services and discovery reform implementation. This bill would ensure the
fund is extended for another 2 years.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
No fiscal impact.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding 18 the
date on which it shall have become a law and shall expire and be 19
deemed repealed two years after such effective date.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4422
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to requiring certain
deposits to the criminal justice discovery compensation fund; and
providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 99-hh of the state finance law, as added by section
2 1 of part E of chapter 55 of the laws of 2020, is amended by adding a
3 new subdivision 2 to read as follows:
4 2. (a) Such fund shall consist of forty million dollars upon immediate
5 transfer from funds secured by payments associated with state sanctioned
6 deferred prosecution agreements currently held on deposit with the
7 office of the Manhattan district attorney.
8 (b) The office of the Manhattan district attorney shall annually remit
9 forty million dollars of future state sanctioned deferred prosecution
10 agreement funds which have been secured by January first of the subse-
11 quent year. If forty million dollars in future funding has not been
12 secured, the office of the Manhattan district attorney shall transfer
13 forty million dollars from funds secured by payments associated with
14 state sanctioned deferred prosecution agreements currently held on
15 deposit with the office of the Manhattan district attorney by January
16 first.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
18 the date on which it shall have become a law and shall expire and be
19 deemed repealed two years after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08716-01-5
