Directs the office of victims services to consult with the office for the aging in establishing a program for home visitation for elderly and invalid victims of violent crime.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4909
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 3, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. DIAZ, HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,
Crime and Correction
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the establishment of a
home visitation program for elderly and invalid victims of violent
crime
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 623 of the executive law, as
2 amended by section 8 of part A-1 of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 9. To establish and maintain a special investigative unit to expedite
5 processing of claims by senior citizens and special emergency situ-
6 ations, and to promote, in consultation with the office for the aging,
7 the establishment of a volunteer program of home visitation to elderly
8 and invalid victims of violent crime.
9 § 2. 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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