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NY A06294
Bill
Status
3/3/2025
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 community organizations
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Creates the Justice Reinvestment Program to partner state and local criminal justice agencies with not-for-profit and faith-based organizations on re-entry support, incarceration alternatives, and family support for offenders and ex-offenders
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Qualified entities must provide services such as job development, housing assistance, community service programs, alternative high schools, drug treatment, or fatherhood/parenting programs
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Requires qualified entities to be located in and primarily serve communities with higher-than-normal concentrations of offenders and ex-offenders, as determined by the commissioner
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Appropriates $10 million from the general fund to the justice reinvestment fund for grants to qualifying organizations
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
1/7/2026