Directs social services districts to contract with non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence to provide outreach and education to students in public and private high schools; provides for state reimbursement therefor.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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816
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, DINOWITZ, ENGLEBRIGHT, ORTIZ, JAFFEE --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. AUBRY, COOK, GOTTFRIED, GUNTHER, PERRY
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing
school-outreach domestic violence prevention programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 459-a of the social services law,
2 as amended by chapter 169 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 5. "Non-residential program for victims of domestic violence" means
5 any program operated by a not-for-profit organization, for the purpose
6 of providing non-residential services to victims of domestic violence,
7 including, but not limited to, information and referral services, advo-
8 cacy, counseling, and community education and outreach activities and
9 providing or arranging for hotline services. Victims of domestic
10 violence and their children, if any, shall constitute at least seventy
11 percent of the clientele of such programs; provided that clientele in a
12 school-outreach domestic violence prevention program shall be disre-
13 garded in making this calculation.
14 § 2. Section 459-c of the social services law is amended by adding a
15 new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
16 3. (a) In accordance with the provisions of this subdivision and the
17 regulations of the office of children and family services, a social
18 services district shall purchase from a not-for-profit organization
19 operating a non-residential program for victims of domestic violence and
20 provide to students within public and private high school settings a
21 program of information and referral services, advocacy, counseling, and
22 education about domestic violence.
23 (b) To the extent that funds are appropriated expressly therefor,
24 state reimbursement shall be available for one hundred percent of the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 expenditures made by a social services district for programs provided
2 pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision.
3 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
4 it shall have become a law; provided that the commissioner of the office
5 of children and family services is authorized to promulgate any and all
6 rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement
7 this act on its effective date on or before such date.
