Senate Bill S4446

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Establishes the sexual assault forensic examiner grant program

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S4446 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A605
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2805-z, Pub Health L; amd §631, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S4654, A471
2011-2012: S249, A2351, A2022
2013-2014: S1329, A1170
2015-2016: S3280, A776
2019-2020: S750, A2055
2021-2022: A89
2023-2024: A1323

2017-S4446 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the sexual assault forensic examiner grant program to award grants to provide statewide access to services provided by sexual assault forensic examiners to victims of sexual assault.

2017-S4446 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4446 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4446
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 15, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. MONTGOMERY, COMRIE -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the executive law, in relation
   to establishing the sexual assault forensic examiner grant program

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2805-z to read as follows:
   § 2805-Z. SEXUAL ASSAULT FORENSIC EXAMINER GRANT PROGRAM. 1. THERE  IS
 HEREBY  CREATED WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT A SEXUAL ASSAULT FORENSIC EXAMINER
 GRANT PROGRAM TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE  COMMISSIONER,  IN  CONSULTATION
 WITH  THE  CRIME  VICTIMS  BOARD,  TO  AWARD GRANTS TO PROVIDE STATEWIDE
 ACCESS TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL  ASSAULT  TO  SERVICES  PROVIDED  BY  SEXUAL
 ASSAULT FORENSIC EXAMINERS.
   2.  A  GRANT  MAY  BE AWARDED UPON SUBMISSION OF AN APPLICATION TO THE
 COMMISSIONER. SUCH APPLICATION FOR A GRANT SHALL DEMONSTRATE A  SPECIFIC
 NEED  FOR AN AWARD OF A GRANT TO PROVIDE SEXUAL ASSAULT FORENSIC EXAMIN-
 ERS WITH THE TRAINING AND RESOURCES TO ASSIST VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.
   § 2. Section 631 of the executive law is amended  by  adding    a  new
 subdivision 19 to read as follows:
   19.  SEXUAL  ASSAULT  FORENSIC  GRANTS  SHALL  BE  AVAILABLE  UPON THE
 SUBMISSION OF AN APPLICATION TO THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH  PURSUANT  TO
 SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED FIVE-Z OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02507-01-7

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