Senate Bill S9210

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits requiring certain municipalities to contribute local shares of eligible expenditures in order to receive funding associated with raising the age of juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of age

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Feb 13, 2026	referred to finance

2025-S9210 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: State Finance Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §54-m, St Fin L

2025-S9210 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits requiring counties or the city of New York to contribute local shares of eligible expenditures in order to receive funding associated with raising the age of juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of age.

2025-S9210 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S9210

SPONSOR: BRISPORT
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the state finance law, in relation to prohibiting
requiring certain municipalities to contribute local shares of eligible
expenditures in order to receive funding associated with raising the age
of juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of age

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one of this bill amends Section 54-m of the state finance law to
ensure that all jurisdictions can access funding in connection with the
Raise the Age law.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

When New York State passed the landmark "Raise the Age" legislation,
drawing sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds out of the criminal justice
system, it was broadly understood that this change should be coupled
with funding for services for young people. The intention was to prevent

crime before it even occurs. However, because of the way that law was
written, the funding has not been made available to some of the
highest-need areas. This new bill will remove the restrictions on Raise
the Age funding, so that all jurisdictions can access services for young
people.

Since fully taking effect in 2019, each year the state budget has
included hundreds of millions of dollars of funding to implement the
Raise the Age law. Under the initiative, counties outside of New York
City create plans to provide early intervention, crime prevention, and
alternative-to-detention services, which they submit to the state's
Office of Children and Family Services for approval and reimbursement.
Raise the Age services can include an array of programs that draw in
community-based agencies offering things like mentors, counseling, and
after-school activities. This array of options is intended to support
teenagers who would otherwise have been funneled into far more punitive
adult courts, jails and prisons.

Unlike other jurisdictions, however, New York City has not received
Raise the Age funding. This is because the law was written in a way that
renders New York City ineligible, and instead puts the onus on the city
to seek a "financial hardship waiver" from the budget director. In the
years since the passage of the Raise the Age law, New York City has not
been able to access this funding. Legislators and commentators have, for
years, acknowledged the need for New York State to make this funding
more broadly available. That is precisely what this legislation will do.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

TBD

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S9210 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9210
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 13, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. BRISPORT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the  state  finance  law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
   requiring  certain municipalities to contribute local shares of eligi-
   ble expenditures in order to receive funding associated  with  raising
   the age of juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of age

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 54-m of the state finance law, as added by  section
 104 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 54-m. Local share requirements associated with increasing the age of
 juvenile  jurisdiction  above  fifteen years of age. Notwithstanding any
 other provision of law to the contrary, counties and  the  city  of  New
 York  shall  not  be  required  to  contribute a local share of eligible
 expenditures [that would not have been incurred absent the provisions of
 a chapter of the laws of two thousand seventeen that added this  section
 unless the most recent budget adopted by a county that is subject to the
 provisions  of section three-c of the general municipal law exceeded the
 tax levy limit prescribed in such section or the local government is not
 subject to the provisions of section three-c of  the  general  municipal
 law;  provided, however, that the state budget director shall be author-
 ized to waive any local share of expenditures associated with a  chapter
 of the laws of two thousand seventeen that increased the age of juvenile
 jurisdiction  above  fifteen  years  of age, upon a showing of financial
 hardship by a county or the city of New York  upon  application  in  the
 form  and manner prescribed by the division of the budget. In evaluating
 an application for a financial  hardship  waiver,  the  budget  director
 shall  consider the incremental cost to the locality related to increas-
 ing the age of juvenile jurisdiction, changes in state  or  federal  aid
 payments,  and  other extraordinary costs, including the occurrence of a
 disaster as defined in paragraph a of subdivision two of section  twenty
 of  the  executive law, repair and maintenance of infrastructure, annual
 growth in tax receipts, including personal income,  business  and  other

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

                                                            LBD14663-01-6
 S. 9210                             2

 taxes,  prepayment  of  debt  service  and other expenses, or such other
 factors that the director may determine] IN  ORDER  TO  RECEIVE  FUNDING
 ASSOCIATED  WITH  INCREASING  THE  AGE  OF  JUVENILE  JURISDICTION ABOVE
 FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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2025-S9210 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S9210 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9210 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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