Bill Text: NY S04654 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-16 - PRINT NUMBER 4654A [S04654 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S04654-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4654--A
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 27, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- 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 --
         committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
         recommitted to said committee
       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-u to read as follows:
    3    S  2805-U. 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    S  2.  Section  631  of  the executive law is amended by adding  a new
   14  subdivision 18 to read as follows:
   15    18. 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-U OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
   18    S 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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