Legislation
SECTION 99-HH
Criminal justice discovery compensation fund
State Finance (STF) CHAPTER 56, ARTICLE 6
** § 99-hh. Criminal justice discovery compensation fund. 1. There is
hereby established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the
commissioner of taxation and finance a fund to be known as the criminal
justice discovery compensation fund.
* 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
subsequent 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.
* NB Repealed March 31, 2024
3. (a) Monies of the criminal justice discovery compensation fund,
following appropriation by the legislature and allocation by the
director of the budget, shall be made available for local assistance
services and expenses related to discovery reform implementation,
including but not limited to, digital evidence transmission technology,
administrative support, computers, hardware and operating software, data
connectivity, development of training materials, staff training,
overtime costs, litigation readiness, and pretrial services. Eligible
entities shall include, but not be limited to counties, cities with
populations less than one million, and law enforcement and prosecutorial
entities within towns and villages.
(b) The director of the budget shall provide the amount of the monies
allocated pursuant to this section to the chief administrator of the
courts and the division of criminal justice services for the purpose of
completing the report required pursuant to subdivision six of section
two hundred sixteen of the judiciary law.
** NB There are 4 § 99-hh's
hereby established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the
commissioner of taxation and finance a fund to be known as the criminal
justice discovery compensation fund.
* 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
subsequent 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.
* NB Repealed March 31, 2024
3. (a) Monies of the criminal justice discovery compensation fund,
following appropriation by the legislature and allocation by the
director of the budget, shall be made available for local assistance
services and expenses related to discovery reform implementation,
including but not limited to, digital evidence transmission technology,
administrative support, computers, hardware and operating software, data
connectivity, development of training materials, staff training,
overtime costs, litigation readiness, and pretrial services. Eligible
entities shall include, but not be limited to counties, cities with
populations less than one million, and law enforcement and prosecutorial
entities within towns and villages.
(b) The director of the budget shall provide the amount of the monies
allocated pursuant to this section to the chief administrator of the
courts and the division of criminal justice services for the purpose of
completing the report required pursuant to subdivision six of section
two hundred sixteen of the judiciary law.
** NB There are 4 § 99-hh's