Bill Text: NY S02198 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the definition of qualified agencies; adds public defenders, legal aid societies, and assigned counsel administrators.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Vetoed) 2019-12-13 - VETOED MEMO.211 [S02198 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02198-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2198
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 23, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sens. BAILEY, HOYLMAN, LANZA, MONTGOMERY, PARKER, RIVERA
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Finance
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  the  definition  of
          qualified agencies
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 835 of the executive law, as sepa-
     2  rately amended by chapters 14 and 155 of the laws of 2012, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    9. "Qualified agencies" means courts in the unified court system,  the
     5  administrative  board of the judicial conference, probation departments,
     6  sheriffs' offices, district attorneys' offices, the state department  of
     7  corrections  and  community supervision, the department of correction of
     8  any municipality, the financial frauds and consumer protection  unit  of
     9  the  state  department of financial services, the office of professional
    10  medical conduct of the state department of health for  the  purposes  of
    11  section  two  hundred thirty of the public health law, the child protec-
    12  tive services unit of a local social services district  when  conducting
    13  an  investigation  pursuant  to  subdivision six of section four hundred
    14  twenty-four of the social services law, the office of Medicaid inspector
    15  general, the temporary state commission of investigation, police  forces
    16  and  departments  having  responsibility  for enforcement of the general
    17  criminal laws of the state, the  Onondaga  County  Center  for  Forensic
    18  Sciences  Laboratory when acting within the scope of its law enforcement
    19  duties and the division  of  forensic  services  of  the  Nassau  county
    20  medical  examiner's  office  when  acting  within  the  scope of its law
    21  enforcement duties  and  public  defenders,  legal  aid  societies,  and
    22  assigned counsel administrators.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05573-01-9