Senate Bill S6495

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Expedites the distributions of funds for the supervision and treatment services for juveniles program

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Children And Families Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S6495 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5128
Current Committee:
Senate Children And Families
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §529-b, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8787, A9856
2023-2024: S396, A6452

2025-S6495 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expedites the distributions of funds for the supervision and treatment services for juveniles program; requires that eligible municipalities receive the sum equivalent to at least their last approved supervision and treatment services for juveniles program plan.

2025-S6495 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6495 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6495
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend  the  executive  law,  in  relation  to  expediting  the
   distributions  of funds for the supervision and treatment services for
   juveniles program

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 529-b of the executive law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
   6. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION, STATE FUNDS  APPRO-
 PRIATED  FOR   THE  SUPERVISION  AND  TREATMENT  SERVICES  FOR JUVENILES
 PROGRAM SHALL BE DISTRIBUTED TO AN ELIGIBLE MUNICIPALITY FOR SERVICES TO
 DIVERT YOUTH AT RISK OF, ALLEGED  TO  BE,  OR  ADJUDICATED  AS  JUVENILE
 DELINQUENTS,  OR  YOUTH ALLEGED TO BE OR CONVICTED AS YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS
 OR ADOLESCENT OFFENDERS FROM PLACEMENT IN DETENTION  OR  IN  RESIDENTIAL
 CARE  ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, SUBJECT TO AVAILABLE APPROPRIATIONS.  ELIGIBLE
 MUNICIPALITIES SHALL RECEIVE THE SUM EQUIVALENT TO AT LEAST  THEIR  LAST
 APPROVED  SUPERVISION  AND TREATMENT SERVICES FOR JUVENILES PROGRAM PLAN
 FOR THE PURPOSES OF IMPLEMENTING THE PROGRAM AND TO DIVERT YOUTH AT RISK
 OF, ALLEGED TO BE, OR ADJUDICATED  AS  JUVENILE  DELINQUENTS,  OR  YOUTH
 ALLEGED TO BE OR CONVICTED AS YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS OR ADOLESCENT OFFENDERS
 FROM  PLACEMENT  IN  DETENTION OR IN RESIDENTIAL CARE. SUCH ANNUAL ALLO-
 CATIONS SHALL NOT BE CONTINGENT ON SUBMITTING  AN  APPROVED  SUPERVISION
 AND  TREATMENT  SERVICES FOR JUVENILES PROGRAM PLAN IN THE CURRENT YEAR,
 AND SUCH ANNUAL ALLOCATIONS SHALL NOT PREVENT AN  ELIGIBLE  MUNICIPALITY
 FROM  SEEKING FUNDS FOR SUPERVISION AND TREATMENT SERVICES FOR JUVENILES
 PROGRAM PLAN IN THE CURRENT YEAR. AT LEAST FIFTY PERCENT  OF  THE  FUNDS
 ALLOCATED  MUST  BE  PROVIDED  BY THE ELIGIBLE COUNTY TO COMMUNITY BASED
 ORGANIZATIONS WHO WORK WITH YOUTH WHO ARE AT RISK OF, ALLEGED TO BE,  OR
 ADJUDICATED AS JUVENILE DELINQUENTS, OR YOUTH ALLEGED TO BE OR CONVICTED
 AS YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS OR ADOLESCENT OFFENDERS.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately  and shall apply to
 distributions of state funds appropriated for the supervision and treat-
 ment services  for juveniles  program  on and after its effective date.

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