New York S 643: Establishes the youth justice innovation fund

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S00643 Summary:

BILL NOS00643A

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORCLEARE

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COSPNSRADDABBO, BASKIN, BRISPORT, BROUK, FAHY, FERNANDEZ, GONZALEZ, JACKSON, SALAZAR, SERRANO, ZELLNER

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §89-g, St Fin L

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Establishes the youth justice innovation fund to make funds available to community-based organizations for services and programs with the purpose of youth development and preventing youth arrest and incarceration.

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BILL NOS00643A

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

03/11/20251ST REPORT CAL.525

03/12/20252ND REPORT CAL.

03/13/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/21/2025PASSED SENATE

05/21/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/22/2025referred to ways and means

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

03/13/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE

03/13/2026PRINT NUMBER 643A

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 643--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. CLEARE, ADDABBO, BASKIN, BRISPORT, BROUK, FAHY,
 FERNANDEZ, GONZALEZ, JACKSON, SALAZAR, SERRANO -- read twice and
 ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
 Finance -- recommitted to the Committee on Finance 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 state finance law, in relation to establishing the
 youth justice innovation fund

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section
 2 89-g to read as follows:
 3 § 89-g. Youth justice innovation fund. 1. A fund to be known as the
 4 "youth justice innovation fund" is hereby established in the custody of
 5 the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance.
 6 2. The fund shall consist of fifty million dollars transferred to such
 7 account pursuant to a plan developed by the director of the budget from
 8 funds made available for the purposes of funding services for youth
 9 through the age of twenty-five, and any interest earnings which may
 10 accrue from the investment of monies in the fund. Nothing contained
 11 herein shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests
 12 for the purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing
 13 them into the fund according to law.
 14 3. Monies of the fund shall be available to the division of criminal
 15 justice services and shall be provided to community-based organizations
 16 to be expended for services and programs with the purpose of youth
 17 development and preventing youth arrest and incarceration, including,
 18 but not limited to, those providing violence-prevention services for
 19 youth, alternatives to detention, placement and incarceration programs

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01830-02-6

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 1 for youth, and reentry, education, and employment training and placement
 2 programs for youth through the age of twenty-five.
 3 4. On or before the first day of March of each year, the director of
 4 the division of criminal justice services shall provide a written report
 5 to the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly,
 6 the minority leader of the senate, the minority leader of the assembly,
 7 the chair of the senate finance committee, the chair of the assembly
 8 ways and means committee, the chair of the senate committee on codes,
 9 the chair of the assembly committee on codes, the state comptroller, and
 10 the public. Such report shall include how the monies of the fund were
 11 utilized during the preceding calendar year, and shall include:
 12 (a) the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award process
 13 used for such disbursements;
 14 (b) recipients of awards from the fund;
 15 (c) the amount awarded to each recipient;
 16 (d) the purposes for which such awards were granted; a