Bill Text: NY S00750 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 750 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Establishes the sexual assault forensic examiner grant program to award grants to provide statewide access to services provided by sexual assault forensic examiners to victims of sexual assault.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-30 - PRINT NUMBER 750A [S00750 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00750-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         750--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  MONTGOMERY,  COMRIE,  GOUNARDES -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Health  --  recommitted  to the Committee on Health in accordance with
          Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from  said  committee  and
          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 public health law and the executive law, in relation
          to establishing the sexual assault forensic examiner grant program

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2805-aa to read as follows:
     3    § 2805-aa. Sexual assault forensic examiner grant program. 1. There is
     4  hereby  created within the department a sexual assault forensic examiner
     5  grant program to be administered by the  commissioner,  in  consultation
     6  with  the  crime  victims  board,  to  award grants to provide statewide
     7  access to victims of sexual  assault  to  services  provided  by  sexual
     8  assault forensic examiners.
     9    2.  A  grant  may  be awarded upon submission of an application to the
    10  commissioner. Such application for a grant shall demonstrate a  specific
    11  need  for an award of a grant to provide sexual assault forensic examin-
    12  ers with the training and resources to assist victims of sexual assault.
    13    § 2. Section 631 of the executive law is amended  by  adding    a  new
    14  subdivision 19 to read as follows:
    15    19.  Sexual  assault  forensic  grants  shall  be  available  upon the
    16  submission of an application to the commissioner of health  pursuant  to
    17  section twenty-eight hundred five-aa of the public health law.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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