Bill Text: NY S03966 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-23 - APPROVAL MEMO.83 [S03966 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03966-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3966--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 22, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
          Correction -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        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 initial medical services. Any crime victim
    10  advocate  assisting  a sexual assault crime victim at a medical facility
    11  at the initial delivery of medical services shall also  be  entitled  to
    12  transportation  free  of  charge to and from such medical facility.  The
    13  office is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations  to  carry  out
    14  the provisions of this section.
    15    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    17  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    18  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    19  on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09283-02-9