Assembly Bill A4422

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to extending provisions requiring certain deposits to the criminal justice discovery compensation fund

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A4422 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd 99-hh, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10354

2025-A4422 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the office of the Manhattan district attorney to continue to annually remit forty million dollars of future state sanctioned deferred prosecution agreement funds.

2025-A4422 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4422
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to requiring  certain
   deposits  to  the  criminal  justice  discovery compensation fund; and
   providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 99-hh of the state finance law, as added by section
 1  of  part  E of chapter 55 of the laws of 2020, is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 2 to read as follows:
   2. (A) SUCH FUND SHALL CONSIST OF FORTY MILLION DOLLARS UPON IMMEDIATE
 TRANSFER FROM FUNDS SECURED BY PAYMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH STATE SANCTIONED
 DEFERRED PROSECUTION AGREEMENTS  CURRENTLY  HELD  ON  DEPOSIT  WITH  THE
 OFFICE OF THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
   (B) THE OFFICE OF THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY SHALL ANNUALLY REMIT
 FORTY  MILLION  DOLLARS  OF FUTURE STATE SANCTIONED DEFERRED PROSECUTION
 AGREEMENT FUNDS WHICH HAVE BEEN SECURED BY JANUARY FIRST OF  THE  SUBSE-
 QUENT  YEAR.  IF  FORTY  MILLION  DOLLARS IN FUTURE FUNDING HAS NOT BEEN
 SECURED, THE OFFICE OF THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT  ATTORNEY  SHALL  TRANSFER
 FORTY  MILLION  DOLLARS  FROM  FUNDS SECURED BY PAYMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH
 STATE SANCTIONED  DEFERRED  PROSECUTION  AGREEMENTS  CURRENTLY  HELD  ON
 DEPOSIT  WITH  THE  OFFICE OF THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY BY JANUARY
 FIRST.
   ยง 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
 the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed two years after such effective date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08716-01-5

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