Bill Text: NY A05107 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs social services districts to contract with non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence to provide outreach and education to students in public and private high schools; provides for state reimbursement therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to social services [A05107 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05107-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5107

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, DINOWITZ, ENGLEBRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.  AUBRY, COOK, GOTTFRIED, GUNTHER, PERRY  --  read  once
          and referred to the Committee on Social Services

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the social services law, in relation to establishing
          school-outreach domestic violence prevention programs

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 5 of section 459-a of the social services law,
     2  as amended by chapter 169 of the laws of 1994, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    5.  "Non-residential  program  for victims of domestic violence" means
     5  any program operated by a not-for-profit organization, for  the  purpose
     6  of  providing  non-residential services to victims of domestic violence,
     7  including, but not limited to, information and referral services,  advo-
     8  cacy,  counseling,  and  community education and outreach activities and
     9  providing  or  arranging  for  hotline  services.  Victims  of  domestic
    10  violence  and  their children, if any, shall constitute at least seventy
    11  percent of the clientele of such programs; provided that clientele in  a
    12  school-outreach  domestic  violence  prevention  program shall be disre-
    13  garded in making this calculation.
    14    § 2. Section 459-c of the social services law is amended by  adding  a
    15  new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    16    3.  (a)  In accordance with the provisions of this subdivision and the
    17  regulations of the office of children  and  family  services,  a  social
    18  services  district  shall  purchase  from  a not-for-profit organization
    19  operating a non-residential program for victims of domestic violence and
    20  provide to students within public and private  high  school  settings  a
    21  program  of information and referral services, advocacy, counseling, and
    22  education about domestic violence.
    23    (b) To the extent that  funds  are  appropriated  expressly  therefor,
    24  state  reimbursement  shall  be available for one hundred percent of the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01934-01-1
        A. 5107                             2

     1  expenditures made by a social services district  for  programs  provided
     2  pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision.
     3    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     4  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     5  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     6  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or
     7  before such date.