Bill Text: NY A01323 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the sexual assault forensic examiner grant program to award grants to provide statewide access to services provided by sexual assault forensic examiners to victims of sexual assault.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A01323 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01323-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1323

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. GUNTHER, STECK, HEVESI, COLTON, J. M. GIGLIO --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the executive law, in relation
          to establishing the sexual assault forensic examiner grant program

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

     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  2805-aa to read as follows:
     3    § 2805-aa. Sexual assault forensic examiner grant program. 1. There is
     4  hereby created within the department a sexual assault forensic  examiner
     5  grant  program  to  be administered by the commissioner, in consultation
     6  with the crime victims board,  to  award  grants  to  provide  statewide
     7  access  to  victims  of  sexual  assault  to services provided by sexual
     8  assault forensic examiners.
     9    2. A grant may be awarded upon submission of  an  application  to  the
    10  commissioner.  Such application for a grant shall demonstrate a specific
    11  need for an award of a grant to provide sexual assault forensic  examin-
    12  ers with the training and resources to assist victims of sexual assault.
    13    §  2.  Section  631  of  the executive law is amended by adding  a new
    14  subdivision 19 to read as follows:
    15    19. Sexual  assault  forensic  grants  shall  be  available  upon  the
    16  submission  of  an application to the commissioner of health pursuant to
    17  section twenty-eight hundred five-aa of the public health law.
    18    § 3. 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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