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                                   8023
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 30, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to domestic violence-re-
   lated activity of the New York state  office  for  the  prevention  of
   domestic  violence and adding a member to the advisory council; and to
   repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (m) of subdivision 3 of section 575 of the execu-
 tive  law,  as  relettered by chapter 339 of the laws of 2011, is relet-
 tered paragraph (n) and a new paragraph (m) is added to read as follows:
   (M) PROMOTING BEST PRACTICES FOR ABUSIVE PARTNER INTERVENTION;
   § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 575  of  the  executive
 law,  as  amended by chapter 248 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read
 as follows:
   (b) The advisory council shall consist of nine members  and  [sixteen]
 SEVENTEEN  ex-officio  members.  Each member shall be appointed to serve
 for a term of three years and shall continue in office until a successor
 appointed member is made. A member appointed to fill a vacancy shall  be
 appointed  for the unexpired term of the member he or she is to succeed.
 All of the members shall be individuals with expertise in  the  area  of
 domestic violence. Three members shall be appointed by the governor, two
 members  shall  be  appointed  upon  the recommendation of the temporary
 president of the senate, two members shall be appointed upon the  recom-
 mendation  of the speaker of the assembly, one member shall be appointed
 upon the recommendation of the minority leader of the  senate,  and  one
 member shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the minority leader
 of  the  assembly.  The  ex-officio  members of the advisory board shall
 consist of the director of the office, who shall chair the council,  and
 the following members or their designees: the commissioner of the office
 of  temporary and disability assistance; the commissioner of the depart-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 ment of health;  the  commissioner  of  the  education  department;  the
 commissioner  of  the  office  of mental health; the commissioner of the
 office of alcoholism and substance abuse services; the  commissioner  of
 the  division  of  criminal  justice services; the superintendent of the
 division of state police; the director of the office  of  probation  and
 correctional  alternatives;  the  commissioner of the office of children
 and family services; the director of the office of victim services;  the
 chief  administrative  judge  of the office of court administration; the
 commissioner of the department of  labor;  the  director  of  the  state
 office  for the aging; the commissioner of the department of corrections
 and community supervision;  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF  HOMES  AND  COMMUNITY
 RENEWAL;  the  chief  executive  officer of the New York state coalition
 against domestic violence; and the executive director of  the  New  York
 state coalition against sexual assault.
   § 3. Section 576 of the executive law is REPEALED.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.