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NY A07041
Bill
Status
4/3/2019
Primary Sponsor
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
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AI Summary
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Establishes the New York State Justice Reinvestment Fund under joint custody of the State Comptroller and Commissioner of Criminal Justice Services to distribute grants to qualified entities.
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Requires qualified entities to be not-for-profit or faith-based organizations providing services such as inmate re-entry support, incarceration alternatives, family support programs, and community-based collaborative programs with criminal justice agencies.
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Limits funding to organizations located in and serving communities with higher than normal concentrations of offenders and ex-offenders, as determined by the commissioner, and requires submission of strategic plans demonstrating how programs will reduce crime and recidivism.
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Appropriates $10,000,000 from the general fund to the Justice Reinvestment Fund for administration and distribution of grants to qualified entities selected by the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
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Takes effect immediately upon enactment.
Legislative Description
Establishes the New York state justice reinvestment fund and program to provide not-for-profit and faith based entities with funding to improve communities with a higher than normal criminal offender and ex-offender population; appropriates $10,000,000 therefor.
Last Action
referred to correction
1/8/2020