Bill Text: NY S04909 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Directs the office of victims services to consult with the office for the aging in establishing a program for home visitation for elderly and invalid victims of violent crime.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-13 - SUBSTITUTED BY A2394 [S04909 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04909-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          4909
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 3, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  DIAZ, HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Crime  Victims,
          Crime and Correction
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the establishment of a
          home  visitation  program  for  elderly and invalid victims of violent
          crime
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  9  of  section  623 of the executive law, as
     2  amended by section 8 of part A-1 of chapter 56 of the laws of  2010,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    9.  To establish and maintain a special investigative unit to expedite
     5  processing of claims by senior  citizens  and  special  emergency  situ-
     6  ations,  and  to promote, in consultation with the office for the aging,
     7  the establishment of a volunteer program of home visitation  to  elderly
     8  and invalid victims of violent crime.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03438-01-7
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