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Assembly Bill A5994

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of qualified agencies

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2015-A5994 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2047
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง835, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A11602, S8229
2011-2012: A7857, S3269
2013-2014: A4720, S3326
2017-2018: A7720, S278, S5358
2019-2020: A7644, S2198
2021-2022: A7729, S7073

2015-A5994 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the definition of qualified agencies; adds public defenders, legal aid societies, and assigned counsel administrators.

2015-A5994 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5994

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 9, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABINANTI
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to the definition of
  qualified agencies

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 835 of the executive law, as sepa-
rately amended by chapters 14 and 155 of the laws of 2012, is amended to
read as follows:
  9.  "Qualified agencies" means courts in the unified court system, the
administrative board of the judicial conference, probation  departments,
sheriffs'  offices, district attorneys' offices, the state department of
corrections and community supervision, the department of  correction  of
any  municipality,  the financial frauds and consumer protection unit of
the state department of financial services, the office  of  professional
medical  conduct  of  the state department of health for the purposes of
section two hundred thirty of the public health law, the  child  protec-
tive  services  unit of a local social services district when conducting
an investigation pursuant to subdivision six  of  section  four  hundred
twenty-four of the social services law, the office of Medicaid inspector
general,  the temporary state commission of investigation, police forces
and departments having responsibility for  enforcement  of  the  general
criminal  laws  of  the  state,  the Onondaga County Center for Forensic
Sciences Laboratory when acting within the scope of its law  enforcement
duties  and  the  division  of  forensic  services  of the Nassau county
medical examiner's office when  acting  within  the  scope  of  its  law
enforcement  duties  AND  PUBLIC  DEFENDERS,  LEGAL  AID  SOCIETIES, AND
ASSIGNED COUNSEL ADMINISTRATORS.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01868-01-5

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