New York A 1891: Establishes the child victims act fund; appropriation

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A01891 Summary:

BILL NOA01891 

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SAME ASSAME AS S03149

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SPONSORLunsford

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COSPNSRConrad, Hunter, Simon, Lavine, Shrestha, Bichotte Hermelyn, Clark, Brook-Krasny, McMahon, Tapia,
 Meeks, Griffin, Hevesi, Schiavoni, Kassay

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §99-ss, St Fin L; add §§209-r & 630-m, Tax L

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Establishes the child victims act fund which provides grant awards in reimbursement to public school districts and voluntary foster care agencies located within the state who have been named as defendants in certain child sexual abuse legal cases and in which it can be demonstrated by the public school district or voluntary foster care agency that no insurance policy for the covered period can be located after a good-faith effort to do so has been made, there was a monetary judgment issued or settlement agreement with regard to such action and where it can be demonstrated by the public school district or voluntary foster care agency that payment in full of such judgment or settlement would put a substantial burden on the district's or agency's ability to execute its mission and negatively impact its existing student population.

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BILL NOA01891 

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01/14/2025referred to ways and means

01/07/2026referred to ways and means

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1891

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD, CONRAD, HUNTER, SIMON, LAVINE, SHRES-
 THA, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, CLARK, BROOK-KRASNY, McMAHON, TAPIA -- read
 once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

 AN ACT to amend the state finance law and the tax law, in relation to
 establishing the child victims act fund; and making an appropriation
 therefor

 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 99-ss to read as follows:
 3 § 99-ss. Child victims act fund. 1. There is hereby established in the
 4 joint custody of the commissioner of taxation and finance, the comp-
 5 troller, and the commissioner of the division of criminal justice
 6 services, a special fund to be known as the "child victims act fund".
 7 Monies in the fund shall be kept separate from and not commingled with
 8 other funds.
 9 2. Such funds shall consist of the revenues received by the department
 10 of taxation and finance, pursuant to the provisions of sections two
 11 hundred nine-r and six hundred thirty-m of the tax law and all other
 12 moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other
 13 fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this section shall
 14 prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts, or bequests for the
 15 purpose of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into
 16 the fund according to law.
 17 3. On or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner
 18 of the division of criminal justice services shall provide a written
 19 report to the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the
 20 assembly, the chair of the senate finance committee, the chair of the
 21 assembly ways and means committee, the comptroller, and the public. Such
 22 report shall include how the monies of the fund were utilized during the
 23 preceding calendar year, and shall include:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03175-01-5

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 1 (a) the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award process
 2 for such disbursement;
 3 (b) recipients of awards from the fund;
 4 (c) the amount awarded to each recipient;
 5 (d) the purpose for which such awards were granted; and
 6 (e) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include esti-
 7 mates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and succeed-
 8 ing fiscal years, along with the actual results from the prior fiscal
 9 year.
 10 4. Monies of the fund shall be expended only in reimbursement to
 11 public school districts and voluntary foster care a