Relates to enacting the "safe way home act"; provides that sexual assault crime victims and crime victim advocates shall be entitled to free transportation to and from medical facilities such sexual assault crime victims had received initial victim services from.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5775--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 19, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting the "safe way
home act"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "safe way home act".
3 § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 631-b to
4 read as follows:
5 § 631-b. Safe way home transportation program. Notwithstanding any
6 other provision of law, within amounts appropriated for that purpose,
7 sexual assault crime victims shall be entitled to transportation free of
8 charge from any medical facility in the state in which such sexual
9 assault crime victim received initial medical services. Any crime victim
10 advocate assisting a sexual assault crime victim at a medical facility
11 at the initial delivery of medical services shall also be entitled to
12 transportation free of charge to and from such medical facility. The
13 office is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out
14 the provisions of this section.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
16 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
17 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
18 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
19 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09283-03-9
