Senate Bill S2240

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes the Defund Municipalities that Defund the Police Act

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance 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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2023-S2240 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5531
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §184, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S6658, A9031

2023-S2240 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the "Defund Municipalities that Defund the Police Act" which provides for a withholding of a certain amount of state funding for a defunding municipality.

2023-S2240 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S2240 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2240
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 19, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive  law,  in  relation  to  establishing  the
   defund municipalities that defund the police act
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known as the "Defund Municipalities  that
 Defund the Police Act".
   §  2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 184 to read
 as follows:
   § 184. DEFUND MUNICIPALITIES THAT DEFUND THE POLICE ACT. 1. AS USED IN
 THIS SECTION, "DEFUNDING MUNICIPALITY" SHALL MEAN A  POLITICAL  SUBDIVI-
 SION, INCLUDING COUNTIES, CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES, THAT:
   (A)  ABOLISHES  OR DISBANDS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH NO INTENTION OF
 RECONSTITUTING SUCH JURISDICTION'S POLICE DEPARTMENT; OR
   (B) SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET WITHOUT REAL-
 LOCATING A  PORTION  OF  THAT  MONEY  TO  ANY  OTHER  COMMUNITY-POLICING
 PROGRAM,  PROVIDED,  THAT  THE  JURISDICTION  DID NOT FACE A SIGNIFICANT
 DECREASE IN REVENUES IN THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR.
   2. THE DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION OF BUDGET SHALL WITHHOLD AN AMOUNT  OF
 STATE FUNDING THAT THE DEFUNDING MUNICIPALITY RECEIVES FROM THE STATE IN
 ACCORDANCE  WITH  SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION. THE DIRECTOR OF THE
 DIVISION OF BUDGET SHALL DISCONTINUE AND REVERSE ANY  WITHHOLDINGS  MADE
 PURSUANT  TO  THIS SECTION UPON A DETERMINATION BY THE DIRECTOR THAT THE
 MUNICIPALITY NO LONGER  QUALIFIES  AS  A  DEFUNDING  MUNICIPALITY  UNDER
 SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
   3.  THE  AMOUNT  WITHHELD  FROM THE DEFUNDING MUNICIPALITY SHALL BE AN
 AMOUNT EQUAL TO THE PERCENTAGE REDUCTION, EXCLUSIVE  OF  FUNDS  DIVERTED
 FOR  ANY  OTHER  COMMUNITY-POLICING PROGRAMS, THAT THE DEFUNDING MUNICI-
 PALITY REDUCES ITS POLICE DEPARTMENT BUDGET BY.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04979-01-3

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