Bill Text: NY S02577 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Eliminates the requirement of serious financial hardship incurred as the result of a crime as a qualification for an award from the crime victims board for victims who are over 60 years of age.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-26 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S02577 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S02577-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2577 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 26, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to eligibility for awards from the office of victim services THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 631 of the executive law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows: 3 (F) IN THE EVENT THAT A CLAIMANT IS A PERSON OVER SIXTY YEARS OF AGE, 4 THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT APPLY. 5 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 6 claims pending and filed on and after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07153-01-1