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Senate Bill S1602
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Children And Families Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2011-S1602 (ACTIVE) - Details
2011-S1602 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S1602 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the executive law, in relation to the office of children and family services and facilitating use of alternatives to detention programs GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To maximize existing resources with the goal of diverting youth from placement in the juvenile justice system. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 of the bill would require the Office of Children and Family Services to encourage and provide technical assistance to counties in order to maximize existing alternative to detention and placement programs. The office would also be required to promote inter county utilization of alternative to detention and placement programs wherever feasible, so that one county may use the programs and services of another county. Section 2 would set an immediate effective date.
2011-S1602 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1602 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 10, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MONTGOMERY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the office of children and family services and facilitating use of alternatives to detention programs THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivisions 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 of section 501 of the executive law, subdivisions 12, 13 and 14 as renumbered by chapter 465 of the laws of 1992, subdivision 16 as renumbered by chapter 170 of the laws of 1994, are renumbered subdivisions 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 and a new subdivision 9 is added to read as follows: 9. (A) TO ENCOURAGE AND PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICTS AND TO ACHIEVE MAXIMUM UTILIZATION OF ALTERNATIVE TO DETENTION AND PLACEMENT PROGRAMS AND TO PROMOTE EFFICIENCY IN THE DELIV- ERY OF SERVICES PROVIDED TO PERSONS ALLEGED OR DETERMINED TO BE IN NEED OF SUPERVISION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE SEVEN OF THE FAMILY COURT ACT AND FOR PERSONS ALLEGED OR DETERMINED TO BE JUVENILE DELINQUENTS AT RISK OF DETENTION OR PLACEMENT PURSUANT TO ARTICLE THREE OF THE FAMILY COURT ACT. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, SUCH PROGRAMS MAY INCLUDE PROGRAMS WITH THE GOAL OF REDUCING RISK BEHAVIORS AMONG YOUTH AND PROMOTING POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT. (B) INTER-COUNTY UTILIZATION OF PROGRAMS AND SERVICES SHALL BE ENCOUR- AGED BY THE OFFICE TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE AND TO PROMOTE THE MAXIMI- ZATION OF RESOURCES. THE OFFICE SHALL PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO COUNTIES WHICH SHALL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, IDENTIFYING PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FOR INTER-COUNTY UTILIZATION, MAKING ANY FEASIBLE PROGRAM MODIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE INTER-COUNTY UTILIZATION, AND ASSIST- ING THE COLLABORATION OF COUNTIES AND COUNTY AGENCIES WITHIN A REGIONAL AREA. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, INTER-COUNTY UTILIZATION SHALL MEAN THE COOPERATIVE SHARING OF ALTERNATIVE TO DETENTION AND PLACEMENT PROGRAMS, SO THAT YOUTH MAY UTILIZE SUCH PROGRAMS OUTSIDE HIS OR HER OWN COUNTY RESIDENCE. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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