Bill Text: NY A04422 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the office of the Manhattan district attorney to continue to annually remit forty million dollars of future state sanctioned deferred prosecution agreement funds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-04 - referred to codes [A04422 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A04422-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4422

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to requiring  certain
          deposits  to  the  criminal  justice  discovery compensation fund; and
          providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Section 99-hh of the state finance law, as added by section
     2  1  of  part  E of chapter 55 of the laws of 2020, is amended by adding a
     3  new subdivision 2 to read as follows:
     4    2. (a) Such fund shall consist of forty million dollars upon immediate
     5  transfer from funds secured by payments associated with state sanctioned
     6  deferred prosecution agreements  currently  held  on  deposit  with  the
     7  office of the Manhattan district attorney.
     8    (b) The office of the Manhattan district attorney shall annually remit
     9  forty  million  dollars  of future state sanctioned deferred prosecution
    10  agreement funds which have been secured by January first of  the  subse-
    11  quent  year.  If  forty  million  dollars in future funding has not been
    12  secured, the office of the Manhattan district  attorney  shall  transfer
    13  forty  million  dollars  from  funds secured by payments associated with
    14  state sanctioned  deferred  prosecution  agreements  currently  held  on
    15  deposit  with  the  office of the Manhattan district attorney by January
    16  first.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
    18  the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law and shall expire and be
    19  deemed repealed two years after such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08716-01-5