STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2364--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 20, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. BAILEY, COONEY, MAY, SALAZAR, SKOUFIS -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing an opera-
          tion  SNUG  program  which provides grant awards to reduce, prevent or
          respond to gun violence

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-x
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 837-x. Operation SNUG program. 1. There is hereby established within
     4  the division an operation SNUG program. The operation SNUG program shall
     5  provide grant awards to local governments and/or community-based  organ-
     6  izations who provide programs and services including but not limited to,
     7  educational,  youth  justice,  gang  prevention,  social work and street
     8  outreach that aim to reduce, prevent or respond  to  gun  violence.  The
     9  governor  shall  include  an  annual  appropriation  of  at least thirty
    10  million dollars in the executive budget  for  the  division  to  support
    11  operation SNUG program grants in accordance with this section.
    12    2.  There  shall  be  no  less than five million dollars annually made
    13  available from any appropriation made in accordance with subdivision one
    14  of this section to support operation SNUG program awards  designated  by
    15  the  senate.    Notwithstanding section twenty-four of the state finance
    16  law or any provision of law to the contrary, funds made available to the
    17  senate in accordance with this section shall be allocated only  pursuant
    18  to  a  plan:   (a) approved by the temporary president of the senate and
    19  the director of the budget which sets forth either an itemized  list  of
    20  grantees  with the amount to be received by each, or the methodology for
    21  allocating such appropriation; and (b) which is thereafter included in a
    22  senate resolution calling for  the  expenditure  of  such  funds,  which

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05679-02-3

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     1  resolution  must  be approved by a majority vote of all  members elected
     2  to the senate upon a roll call vote.
     3    3.  There  shall  be  no  less than five million dollars annually made
     4  available from any appropriation made in accordance with subdivision one
     5  of this section  to support operation SNUG program awards designated  by
     6  the  assembly.  Notwithstanding section twenty-four of the state finance
     7  law or any provision of law to the contrary, funds made available to the
     8  assembly in accordance with this section shall be allocated only  pursu-
     9  ant  to  a  plan:    (a) approved by the speaker of the assembly and the
    10  director of the budget which sets forth either an itemized list of gran-
    11  tees with the amount to be received by  each,  or  the  methodology  for
    12  allocating  such  appropriation; and (b) which is thereafter included in
    13  an assembly resolution calling for the expenditure of such funds,  which
    14  resolution must be approved by a majority vote of all members elected to
    15  the assembly upon a roll call vote.
    16    4. Pursuant to a plan prepared by the commissioner and approved by the
    17  director  of  the  budget,  no less than twenty million dollars annually
    18  shall be made available and awarded to grantees  providing  services  in
    19  counties  throughout  the state; provided, however, that such plan shall
    20  provide an annual award in a dollar amount no less than that provided in
    21  the following sub-schedule:

    22                  Sub-schedule
    23  Albany County .................... 1,000,000
    24  Dutchess County .................... 400,000
    25  Erie County ...................... 1,250,000
    26  Monroe County ...................... 800,000
    27  Nassau County ...................... 500,000
    28  Niagara County ..................... 250,000
    29  Oneida County ...................... 250,000
    30  Onondaga County .................... 750,000
    31  Orange County ...................... 250,000
    32  Rensselaer County .................. 500,000
    33  Rockland County .................... 250,000
    34  Schenectady County ................. 250,000
    35  Suffolk County ..................... 500,000
    36  Ulster County ...................... 250,000
    37  Westchester County ............... 1,500,000
    38  New York City (Bronx County) ..... 1,500,000
    39  New York City (Kings County) ..... 1,500,000
    40  New York City (New York County) .. 1,300,000
    41  New York City (Queens County) .... 1,500,000
    42  New York City (Richmond County) .... 500,000
    43                                --------------
    44    Total of sub-schedule ......... 15,000,000

    45    The commissioner may use at least five  million  dollars  annually  to
    46  increase  funding  provided  to  counties  listed in the sub-schedule or
    47  expand operation SNUG  programs  and  services  to  additional  counties
    48  throughout the state.
    49    § 2.  This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
    50  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
    51  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    52  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    53  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.