Bill Text: NY A06698 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes Jacobs' fund to assist victims of drunk or drug impaired driving who are permanently disabled.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to transportation [A06698 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06698-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6698
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 15, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, the state finance law and
          the social services law, in relation to establishing Jacobs'  fund  to
          assist  victims  of drunk or drug impaired driving who are permanently
          disabled
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 503 of the vehicle and traffic law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (1) to read as follows:
     3    (1)  With respect to any fee required by this subdivision, the depart-
     4  ment shall collect an additional fee in the amount of one  dollar  which
     5  shall  be  used  exclusively to assist victims of drunk or drug impaired
     6  driving.  In addition to such one  dollar  fee,  the  comptroller  shall
     7  credit  five  hundred dollars on the first of each month to Jacobs' fund
     8  to supplement social security disability and social security income  for
     9  individuals  who  are victims of drunk or drug impaired driving, and who
    10  are permanently disabled as a result.  Monies collected as a  result  of
    11  such  additional fee shall be deposited in a special fund to be known as
    12  Jacobs' fund and monies in such fund shall be used exclusively to assist
    13  victims of drunk or drug impaired driving as set forth in section eight-
    14  y-two of the state finance law.
    15    § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new  section  82  to
    16  read as follows:
    17    § 82. Jacobs' fund. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custo-
    18  dy  of  the  commissioner of taxation and finance and the comptroller, a
    19  special fund to be known as "Jacobs' fund".
    20    2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys received by the state  pursu-
    21  ant to paragraph (l) of subdivision two of section five hundred three of
    22  the  vehicle  and  traffic  law  and all other grants, bequests or other
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  moneys appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund
     2  or source pursuant to law.
     3    3.  Moneys  in the fund shall be kept separate and apart and shall not
     4  be commingled with any other moneys in the custody of  the  commissioner
     5  of taxation and finance and the comptroller.
     6    4.  Moneys  of  the  fund, following appropriation by the legislature,
     7  shall be available to the department of social  services  and  shall  be
     8  expended  by such department to assist victims of drunk or drug impaired
     9  driving pursuant to the provisions of subdivision nine of section twenty
    10  of the social services law.
    11    § 3. Section 20 of the social services law is amended by adding a  new
    12  subdivision 9 to read as follows:
    13    9. The office of temporary and disability assistance shall, in cooper-
    14  ation with local social services districts and appropriate federal agen-
    15  cies develop a program to assist victims of drunk or drug impaired driv-
    16  ing  who are permanently disabled and unable to work. Such program shall
    17  be funded by funds made available from Jacobs' fund, as  established  by
    18  section  eighty-two of the state finance law. Application for such funds
    19  shall be made in a manner and form as determined  by  such  office.  The
    20  office  of  temporary and disability assistance is hereby authorized and
    21  directed to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to carry out  the
    22  provisions of this subdivision.
    23    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    24  it shall have become a law, provided, however, that effective immediate-
    25  ly,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation
    26  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
    27  authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.