Bill Text: NY S09312 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes the youth justice innovation fund to make funds available to community-based organizations for services and programs with the purpose of youth development and preventing youth arrest and incarceration.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-03 - PRINT NUMBER 9312A [S09312 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S09312-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9312--A IN SENATE May 10, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sens. CLEARE, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, KRUEGER, LIU, PARKER, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the youth justice innovation fund The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 2 89-gg to read as follows: 3 § 89-gg. Youth justice innovation fund. 1. A fund to be known as the 4 "youth justice innovation fund" is hereby established in the custody of 5 the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance. 6 2. The fund shall consist of fifty million dollars transferred to such 7 account pursuant to a plan developed by the director of the budget from 8 funds made available for the purposes of funding raise the age require- 9 ments, and any interest earnings which may accrue from the investment of 10 monies in the fund. Nothing contained herein shall prevent the state 11 from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of the fund as 12 defined in this section and depositing them into the fund according to 13 law. 14 3. Monies of the fund shall be available to the division of criminal 15 justice services and shall be provided to community-based organizations 16 to be expended for services and programs with the purpose of youth 17 development and preventing youth arrest and incarceration, including, 18 but not limited to, those providing violence-prevention services for 19 youth, alternatives to detention, placement and incarceration programs 20 for youth, and reentry, education, and employment training and placement 21 programs for youth. Such funding shall supplement and not supplant 22 existing state supports for local probation services under the "raise 23 the age" law. 24 4. On or before the first day of March of each year, the director of 25 the division of criminal justice services shall provide a written report EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13692-06-4S. 9312--A 2 1 to the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, 2 the minority leader of the senate, the minority leader of the assembly, 3 the chair of the senate finance committee, the chair of the assembly 4 ways and means committee, the chair of the senate committee on codes, 5 the chair of the assembly committee on codes, the state comptroller, and 6 the public. Such report shall include how the monies of the fund were 7 utilized during the preceding calendar year, and shall include: 8 (a) the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award process 9 used for such disbursements; 10 (b) recipients of awards from the fund; 11 (c) the amount awarded to each recipient; 12 (d) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and 13 (e) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include esti- 14 mates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and succeed- 15 ing fiscal years, along with the actual results from the prior fiscal 16 year. 17 5. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of 18 the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the director of 19 the division of criminal justice services. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.