COONEY, MAY, REICHLIN-MELNICK, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SKOUFIS
MLTSPNSR
Add §837-x, Exec L
Establishes an "operation SNUG" program within the division of criminal justice services which provides grant awards to reduce, prevent or respond to gun violence.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8287
IN SENATE
February 9, 2022
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Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing an opera-
tion SNUG program which provides grant awards to reduce, prevent or
respond to gun violence
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-x
2 to read as follows:
3 § 837-x. Operation SNUG program. 1. There is hereby established within
4 the division an operation SNUG program. The operation SNUG program shall
5 provide grant awards to local governments and/or community-based organ-
6 izations who provide programs and services including but not limited to,
7 educational, youth justice, gang prevention, social work and street
8 outreach that aim to reduce, prevent or respond to gun violence. There
9 shall be an annual appropriation of at least thirty million dollars made
10 available to the division to support operation SNUG program grants.
11 2. There shall be no less than five million dollars annually made
12 available to support operation SNUG program awards designated by the
13 senate. Notwithstanding section twenty-four of the state finance law or
14 any provision of law to the contrary, such amount shall be allocated
15 pursuant to a plan prepared and approved by the temporary president of
16 the senate and submitted to the commissioner and the director of the
17 budget which sets forth either an itemized list of grantees with the
18 amount to be received by each, or the methodology for allocating such
19 appropriations.
20 3. There shall be no less than five million dollars annually made
21 available to support operation SNUG program awards designated by the
22 assembly. Notwithstanding section twenty-four of the state finance law
23 or any provision of law to the contrary, such amount shall be allocated
24 pursuant to a plan prepared and approved by the speaker of the assembly
25 and submitted to the commissioner and the director of the budget which
26 sets forth either an itemized list of grantees with the amount to be
27 received by each, or the methodology for allocating such appropriations.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 4. Pursuant to a plan prepared by the commissioner and approved by the
2 director of the budget, no less than twenty million dollars annually
3 shall be made available and awarded to grantees providing services in
4 counties throughout the state; provided, however, that such plan shall
5 provide an annual award in a dollar amount no less than that provided in
6 the following sub-schedule:
7 Sub-schedule
8 Albany County .................... 1,000,000
9 Dutchess County .................... 400,000
10 Erie County ...................... 1,250,000
11 Monroe County ...................... 800,000
12 Nassau County ...................... 500,000
13 Niagara County ..................... 250,000
14 Oneida County ...................... 250,000
15 Onondaga County .................... 750,000
16 Orange County ...................... 250,000
17 Rensselaer County .................. 500,000
18 Rockland County .................... 250,000
19 Schenectady County ................. 250,000
20 Suffolk County ..................... 500,000
21 Ulster County ...................... 250,000
22 Westchester County ............... 1,500,000
23 New York City (Bronx County) ..... 1,500,000
24 New York City (Kings County) ..... 1,500,000
25 New York City (New York County) .. 1,300,000
26 New York City (Queens County) .... 1,500,000
27 New York City (Richmond County) .... 500,000
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29 Total of sub-schedule ......... 15,000,000
30 The commissioner may use at least five million dollars annually to
31 increase funding provided to counties listed in the sub-schedule or
32 expand operation SNUG programs and services to additional counties
33 throughout the state.
34 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
35 have become a law.
