NY State Senate Bill 2025-S643

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Jan 08, 2025	referred to finance

2025-S643 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A767
Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: State Finance Law
Laws Affected:: Add §89-gg, St Fin L

2025-S643 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the youth justice innovation fund to make funds available to community-based organizations for services and programs with the purpose of youth development and preventing youth arrest and incarceration.

2025-S643 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S643

SPONSOR: CLEARE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the
youth justice innovation fund

 
PURPOSE:

To create a Youth Justice Innovation Fund, administered by the division
of criminal justice services and distributed to community-based organ-
izations to be expended for services and programs with the purpose of
youth development and preventing youth arrest and incarceration, includ-
ing, but not limited to, those providing violence-prevention services;
alternative to detention, placement and incarceration programs for youth
and reentry, education and employment training and placement programs
for youth though age twenty-five. Such funding shall supplement and not
supplant existing support for local probation services under the "Raise
the Age" law.

 
SUMMARY:

Section 1. Amends the state finance law by adding a new section 89- gg.
Section 2. Sets the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

After the implementation of New York state's Raise the Age law in 2018,
it was pledged that the program providing supervision and treatment
services for at-risk youth would be adequately funded. Despite this
promise, as of March 2024, less than a third of the $1.5 billion appro-
priated for this purpose has been disbursed, leading to a backlog of
unresolved family court cases.  This legislation will expedite the
disbursement of $50 million in funds from the annual appropriation of
$250 million to community-based organizations that work with youth who
are at risk of, alleged to be, or adjudicated as juvenile delinquents,
juvenile offenders, or adolescent offenders through age twenty-five.
This funding will be specifically focused on funding services and
programs with the purpose of youth development and preventing youth
arrest and incarceration, including, but not limited to, those providing
violence-prevention services; alternatives to detention, placement and
incarceration programs for youth and reentry, education, and employment
training and placement programs for youth.

 
SOCIAL JUSTICE IMPACT:

Providing timely access to resources is especially critical for communi-
ties of color due to the significant racial disparity in arrest, prose-
cution, and incarceration. A 2019 study conducted by the Sentencing
Project found that in New York, juvenile placement rates for Black
youths are more than 5 times higher than those for their white peers.
Moreover, the difference in placement rates between the two racial
groups was found to have only decreased by 2% between 2015 to 2019 leav-
ing a slightly smaller yet still considerable disparity between Black
youth and White youth.  Accelerated funding for juvenile programs is
required to address these inequalities through prevention initiatives.
The proposed legislation aims to expedite the allocation of funds to
community organizations to facilitate the full implementation of Raise
the Age programming. According to a 2017 national report by Georgetown
Law's Center on Poverty and Inequity, examining the disparate treatment
of Black juvenile girls by various system actors, Black girls are 2.7
times more likely than White girls to be referred to juvenile justice,
are 1.2 times more likely to be detained, as well as three times more
likely to be removed from their homes and placed in state custody
compared to white girls. There is an imperative to provide greater aid
for juvenile programming, and through this bill, the distribution of
funds will be expedited to community organizations.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

TBD.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to expenditures
made on and after April 1, 2025.

2025-S643 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    643
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to  establishing  the
   youth justice innovation fund

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  The state finance law is amended by adding a  new  section
 89-gg to read as follows:
   §  89-GG. YOUTH JUSTICE INNOVATION FUND. 1.  A FUND TO BE KNOWN AS THE
 "YOUTH JUSTICE INNOVATION FUND" IS HEREBY ESTABLISHED IN THE CUSTODY  OF
 THE STATE COMPTROLLER AND THE COMMISSIONER OF TAXATION AND FINANCE.
   2. THE FUND SHALL CONSIST OF FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS TRANSFERRED TO SUCH
 ACCOUNT  PURSUANT TO A PLAN DEVELOPED BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUDGET FROM
 FUNDS MADE AVAILABLE FOR THE PURPOSES  OF  FUNDING  SERVICES  FOR  YOUTH
 THROUGH  THE  AGE  OF  TWENTY-FIVE,  AND ANY INTEREST EARNINGS WHICH MAY
 ACCRUE FROM THE INVESTMENT OF MONIES  IN  THE  FUND.  NOTHING  CONTAINED
 HEREIN  SHALL PREVENT THE STATE FROM RECEIVING GRANTS, GIFTS OR BEQUESTS
 FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE FUND AS DEFINED IN THIS SECTION  AND  DEPOSITING
 THEM INTO THE FUND ACCORDING TO LAW.
   3.  MONIES  OF THE FUND SHALL BE AVAILABLE TO THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL
 JUSTICE SERVICES AND SHALL BE PROVIDED TO COMMUNITY-BASED  ORGANIZATIONS
 TO  BE  EXPENDED  FOR  SERVICES  AND  PROGRAMS WITH THE PURPOSE OF YOUTH
 DEVELOPMENT AND PREVENTING YOUTH ARREST  AND  INCARCERATION,  INCLUDING,
 BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO,  THOSE PROVIDING VIOLENCE-PREVENTION SERVICES FOR
 YOUTH, ALTERNATIVES TO DETENTION, PLACEMENT AND  INCARCERATION  PROGRAMS
 FOR YOUTH, AND REENTRY, EDUCATION, AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING AND PLACEMENT
 PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH THROUGH THE AGE OF TWENTY-FIVE.
   4.  ON  OR BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF MARCH OF EACH YEAR, THE DIRECTOR OF
 THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES SHALL PROVIDE A WRITTEN REPORT
 TO THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, THE SPEAKER OF  THE  ASSEMBLY,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD01830-01-5
 S. 643                              2
 
 THE  MINORITY LEADER OF THE SENATE, THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE ASSEMBLY,
 THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE, THE  CHAIR  OF  THE  ASSEMBLY
 WAYS  AND  MEANS  COMMITTEE, THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON CODES,
 THE CHAIR OF THE ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON CODES, THE STATE COMPTROLLER, AND
 THE  PUBLIC.  SUCH  REPORT SHALL INCLUDE HOW THE MONIES OF THE FUND WERE
 UTILIZED DURING THE PRECEDING CALENDAR YEAR, AND SHALL INCLUDE:
   (A) THE AMOUNT OF MONEY DISBURSED FROM THE FUND AND THE AWARD  PROCESS
 USED FOR SUCH DISBURSEMENTS;
   (B) RECIPIENTS OF AWARDS FROM THE FUND;
   (C) THE AMOUNT AWARDED TO EACH RECIPIENT;
   (D) THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH SUCH AWARDS WERE GRANTED; AND
   (E) A SUMMARY FINANCIAL PLAN FOR SUCH MONIES WHICH SHALL INCLUDE ESTI-
 MATES OF ALL RECEIPTS AND ALL DISBURSEMENTS FOR THE CURRENT AND SUCCEED-
 ING  FISCAL  YEARS,  ALONG WITH THE ACTUAL RESULTS FROM THE PRIOR FISCAL
 YEAR.
   5. MONIES SHALL BE PAYABLE FROM THE FUND ON THE AUDIT AND  WARRANT  OF
 THE  COMPTROLLER  ON  VOUCHERS APPROVED AND CERTIFIED BY THE DIRECTOR OF
 THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to expend-
 itures made on and after April 1, 2025.

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Senate Bill S643

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

2025-S643 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S643 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S643 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S643 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Cordell Cleare

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

2025-S643 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S643 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S643 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S643 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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