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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7538
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      May 31, 2012
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens.  SALAND, GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
        AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to the authority of district
          attorneys to hire and retain licensed professionals
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 

     1    Section  1.  Section  700 of the county law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 13 to read as follows:
     3    13. In order to provide services  to  crime  victims,  witnesses,  and
     4  other  persons  involved  in the criminal justice system, and to support
     5  crime prevention programs, the district attorney may employ or  contract
     6  with persons licensed and registered to practice or otherwise authorized
     7  under  article  one  hundred fifty-three, one hundred fifty-four, or one
     8  hundred sixty-three of the education  law,  or  contract  with  entities
     9  authorized  to  provide  the  services  specified  in  such articles, in
    10  connection with the provision of any services that such persons or enti-
    11  ties are authorized to provide and that are authorized by  the  district

    12  attorney.
    13    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately, provided that, for
    14  purposes of satisfying the experience  requirements  for  licensure  set
    15  forth  in  article  153,  154, or 163 of the education law, satisfactory
    16  experience obtained in the  office  of  a  district  attorney  providing
    17  services  authorized in section 700 of the county law may be accepted by
    18  the education department, notwithstanding that such experience may  have
    19  been obtained prior to the effective date of this act.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16103-01-2