Bill Text: NY A06742 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes an elderly crime prevention and control trust fund to be funded by an initial appropriation and administrative assessment penalties on persons convicted of felonies when an elderly person is a victim; provides that the fund is to be administered by the division of criminal justice services which shall give grants to organizations who will set up programs to prevent crimes against elderly persons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-01 - print number 6742a [A06742 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06742-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6742--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 1, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO,
          MOYA, RAMOS, RIVERA, RODRIGUEZ, SEPULVEDA -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Aging -- recommitted to the  Committee  on  Aging  in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the elder law, the penal law, the criminal procedure law
          and  the  state  finance  law,  in  relation  to  crime prevention and
          control; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon  expira-
          tion thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The elder law is amended by adding a new article 3 to  read
     2  as follows:
     3                                  ARTICLE III
     4             ELDERLY CRIME PREVENTION AND CONTROL TRUST FUND ACT
     5  Section 301. Short title.
     6          302. Legislative finding and declaration.
     7          303. Definitions.
     8          304. Administration of trust fund.
     9          305. Application procedures.
    10          306. Rules and regulations.
    11          307. Reporting.
    12          308. Legislative hearings.
    13    §  301.  Short  title. This article shall be known and may be cited as
    14  the "Elderly Crime Prevention and Control Trust Fund Act".
    15    § 302. Legislative finding  and  declaration.  This  legislature  does
    16  hereby find and declare that the elderly population of this state, which
    17  for  the purposes of this article is defined as individuals over the age
    18  of sixty-two years, is uniquely vulnerable to actual and potential crim-
    19  inal victimization by virtue of physical frailty, concentrations in high
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05746-03-6