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Assembly Bill A5439

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to the establishment of a home visitation program for elderly and invalid victims of violent crime

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2011-A5439 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3559
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง623, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A449, S313
2015-2016: A300, S267
2017-2018: A2394, S4909

2011-A5439 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the office of victims services to consult with the office for the aging in establishing a program for home visitation for elderly and invalid victims of violent crime.

2011-A5439 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5439

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 18, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Aging

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the establishment of a
  home  visitation  program  for  elderly and invalid victims of violent
  crime

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  9  of  section  623 of the executive law, as
amended by section 8 of part A-1 of chapter 56 of the laws of  2010,  is
amended to read as follows:
  9.  To establish and maintain a special investigative unit to expedite
processing of claims by senior  citizens  and  special  emergency  situ-
ations,  and  to promote, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE OFFICE FOR THE AGING,
the establishment of a volunteer program of home visitation  to  elderly
and invalid victims of violent crime.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08414-01-1

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