Bill Text: NY S01141 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to providing ten million dollars annually to be used for the provision of grants related to the expansion and support of crisis intervention services and diversion programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO BUDGET AND REVENUE [S01141 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01141-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1141

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Budget and Revenue

        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to providing grants related  to
          the expansion and support of crisis intervention services and training
          programs

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 6 of section 186-f of
     2  the tax law, paragraph (d) as amended and  paragraph  (e)  as  added  by
     3  section  39 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, are amended and
     4  a new paragraph (f) is added to read as follows:
     5    (d) To provide the costs of debt service for bonds and notes issued to
     6  finance expedited deployment  funding  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
     7  section three hundred thirty-three of the county law and section sixteen
     8  hundred eighty-nine-h of the public authorities law; [and]
     9    (e)  [services] Services and expenses that support the [operations and
    10  mission of] interoperable communications program within the division  of
    11  homeland security and emergency services as appropriated by the legisla-
    12  ture[.];
    13    (f)  The  sum  of  ten  million dollars annually shall be used for the
    14  provision of grants related to  the  expansion  and  support  of  crisis
    15  intervention  services and training programs as developed or approved by
    16  the New York state office of mental  health,  in  conjunction  with  the
    17  division  of  criminal  justice  services  and  the  office of addiction
    18  services and supports, for law enforcement officers, 911 dispatchers  or
    19  call  takers, and first responders, to be distributed pursuant to a plan
    20  developed by the commissioner of the office of mental health in conjunc-
    21  tion with the commissioner of  the  office  of  addiction  services  and
    22  supports,  and  the  commissioner  of  the  division of criminal justice
    23  services. Such plan shall consider factors such as population and number
    24  of staff eligible for such training. The commissioner of the  office  of

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04730-01-3
        S. 1141                             2

     1  mental  health  and the commissioner of the division of criminal justice
     2  services shall provide a report to  the  governor  and  the  legislature
     3  annually stating the progress of the program, including, but not limited
     4  to, information detailing the number of individuals trained, the occupa-
     5  tions  of  those trained, and their county of employment. Any funds used
     6  for purposes outlined in this subparagraph shall  be  appropriated  from
     7  the  funds  provided  for  in  paragraph (a) of subdivision five of this
     8  section; and
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
    10  the date on which it shall have become a law.