Bill Text: NY A06424 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides for the reimbursement of not-for-profit corporations for fees collected for criminal history searches by the office of court administration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-06 - enacting clause stricken [A06424 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06424-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          6424
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 7, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction
        AN  ACT  to amend part J of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, amending the
          county law and other laws relating to assigned counsel, in relation to
          providing for the reimbursement  of  not-for-profit  corporations  for
          fees  collected  for  criminal history searches by the office of court
          administration
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  14  of  part J of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003
     2  amending the county law and other laws relating to assigned counsel,  as
     3  amended  by  section  7  of part K of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is
     4  amended to read as follows:
     5    § 14. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other  law:  (a)  the  fee
     6  collected    by  the office of court administration for the provision of
     7  criminal history searches and other searches  for  data  kept  electron-
     8  ically  by  the  unified  court  system shall be sixty-five dollars; (b)
     9  thirty-five dollars of each such fee collected shall be deposited in the
    10  indigent legal services fund established by section 98-b  of  the  state
    11  finance law, as added by section twelve of this act, (c) nine dollars of
    12  each such fee collected shall be deposited in the legal services assist-
    13  ance fund established by section 98-c of the state finance law, as added
    14  by  section  nineteen  of this act, (d) sixteen dollars of each such fee
    15  collected shall be deposited to the  judiciary  data  processing  offset
    16  fund  established  by section 94-b of the state finance law, and (e) the
    17  remainder shall be deposited  in  the  general  fund[.];  (f)  provided,
    18  however,  if  a  criminal history search or other searches for data kept
    19  electronically by the unified court system is being requested by  or  on
    20  the behalf of a not-for-profit corporation, to perform a criminal histo-
    21  ry search on an individual that would be working with children under the
    22  age  of  eighteen,  the office of court administration shall, subject to
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10286-01-9

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     1  the approval of the director of the budget, establish protocols to reim-
     2  burse  the  not-for-profit  corporation  for  searches  conducted,  such
     3  reimbursement  shall  come from the general fund. The division of budget
     4  shall also promulgate regulations to prevent not-for-profit corporations
     5  from  over utilizing this reimbursement mechanism and to assure that all
     6  reimbursed search fees are used for criminal history searches  of  posi-
     7  tions that would have direct interaction with children.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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