Bill Text: NY A05775 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to enacting the "safe way home act"; provides that sexual assault crime victims and crime victim advocates shall be entitled to free transportation to and from medical facilities such sexual assault crime victims had received initial victim services from.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-23 - APPROVAL MEMO.83 [A05775 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5775
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 19, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting the "safe way
          home act"
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "safe way home act".
     3    §  2.  The  executive  law is amended by adding a new section 631-b to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 631-b. Safe way home transportation program.    Notwithstanding  any
     6  other  provision  of  law, within amounts appropriated for that purpose,
     7  sexual assault crime victims shall be entitled to transportation free of
     8  charge from any medical facility in  the  state  in  which  such  sexual
     9  assault  crime  victim received medical services. Any crime victim advo-
    10  cate assisting a sexual assault crime victim at a medical facility shall
    11  also be entitled to transportation free  of  charge  to  and  from  such
    12  medical  facility.    The  office  is authorized to promulgate rules and
    13  regulations to carry out the provisions of this section.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    16  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    17  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    18  on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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