Bill Text: NY S06864 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes the Suffolk county felony youth part demonstration program; makes services provided by the office of children and family services, such as but not limited to, therapeutic and intensive care management services, available to youth prosecuted in the Suffolk county felony youth part; requires a written evaluation of the demonstration program two years after the establishment of the felony youth part.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2016-11-28 - VETOED MEMO.282 [S06864 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06864-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6864--A
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 2, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive  law, in relation to establishing the
          Suffolk county felony youth part demonstration program
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 520 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 520. Suffolk county felony youth part demonstration program.  1. The
     4  office  of children and family services in consultation with the commis-
     5  sioner of criminal justice services, shall, within the amounts appropri-
     6  ated therefor, establish a  Suffolk  county  felony  youth  part  (SFYP)
     7  demonstration  program. The program shall determine what types of felony
     8  offenses occurring in Suffolk county may be prosecuted and sentenced  in
     9  the Suffolk county felony youth part. Services provided by the office of
    10  children  and  family  services, such as but not limited to, therapeutic
    11  and intensive care management services,  shall  be  available  to  youth
    12  prosecuted  in  the  Suffolk county felony youth part.  Funding for such
    13  program shall be  provided  for  under  the  supervision  and  treatment
    14  services  for juveniles program under section five hundred twenty-nine-b
    15  of this article.
    16    2. Not later than two years after the  establishment  of  the  Suffolk
    17  county  felony  youth part demonstration program, the office of children
    18  and family services shall provide the governor, the temporary  president
    19  of  the  senate,  the  speaker  of the assembly, the chair of the senate
    20  standing committee on crime victims, crime and correction, the chair  of
    21  the senate standing committee on children and families, the chair of the
    22  senate  standing  committee  on  judiciary,  the  chair  of the assembly
    23  corrections committee, the chair of the assembly children  and  families
    24  committee and the chair of the assembly judiciary committee with a writ-
    25  ten  evaluation  of  the  demonstration  program.  Such evaluation shall
    26  address the overall effectiveness of the  Suffolk  county  felony  youth
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  part  demonstration  program  as  it  relates to the total youthful jail
     2  population in Suffolk county, whether  such  population  has  been  cut,
     3  whether  such  program  has reduced recidivism, whether such program has
     4  provided  necessary  services  to  address  the  needs of the youth with
     5  mental health and substance abuse issues, and whether the  expansion  of
     6  this or similar courts is recommended.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.