STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2364

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 20, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. BAILEY, COONEY, MAY, SALAZAR, SKOUFIS -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Codes

        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. There
     9  shall be an annual appropriation of at least thirty million dollars made
    10  available to the division to support operation SNUG program grants.
    11    2. There shall be no less than  five  million  dollars  annually  made
    12  available  to  support  operation  SNUG program awards designated by the
    13  senate.  Notwithstanding section twenty-four of the state finance law or
    14  any provision of law to the contrary, such  amount  shall  be  allocated
    15  pursuant  to  a plan prepared and approved by the temporary president of
    16  the senate and submitted to the commissioner and  the  director  of  the
    17  budget  which  sets  forth  either an itemized list of grantees with the
    18  amount to be received by each, or the methodology  for  allocating  such
    19  appropriations.
    20    3.  There  shall  be  no  less than five million dollars annually made
    21  available to support operation SNUG program  awards  designated  by  the
    22  assembly.   Notwithstanding section twenty-four of the state finance law
    23  or any provision of law to the contrary, such amount shall be  allocated

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05679-01-3

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     1  pursuant  to a plan prepared and approved by the speaker of the assembly
     2  and submitted to the commissioner and the director of the  budget  which
     3  sets  forth  either  an  itemized list of grantees with the amount to be
     4  received by each, or the methodology for allocating such appropriations.
     5    4. Pursuant to a plan prepared by the commissioner and approved by the
     6  director  of  the  budget,  no less than twenty million dollars annually
     7  shall be made available and awarded to grantees  providing  services  in
     8  counties  throughout  the state; provided, however, that such plan shall
     9  provide an annual award in a dollar amount no less than that provided in
    10  the following sub-schedule:

    11                  Sub-schedule
    12  Albany County .................... 1,000,000
    13  Dutchess County .................... 400,000
    14  Erie County ...................... 1,250,000
    15  Monroe County ...................... 800,000
    16  Nassau County ...................... 500,000
    17  Niagara County ..................... 250,000
    18  Oneida County ...................... 250,000
    19  Onondaga County .................... 750,000
    20  Orange County ...................... 250,000
    21  Rensselaer County .................. 500,000
    22  Rockland County .................... 250,000
    23  Schenectady County ................. 250,000
    24  Suffolk County ..................... 500,000
    25  Ulster County ...................... 250,000
    26  Westchester County ............... 1,500,000
    27  New York City (Bronx County) ..... 1,500,000
    28  New York City (Kings County) ..... 1,500,000
    29  New York City (New York County) .. 1,300,000
    30  New York City (Queens County) .... 1,500,000
    31  New York City (Richmond County) .... 500,000
    32                                --------------
    33    Total of sub-schedule ......... 15,000,000

    34    The commissioner may use at least five  million  dollars  annually  to
    35  increase  funding  provided  to  counties  listed in the sub-schedule or
    36  expand operation SNUG  programs  and  services  to  additional  counties
    37  throughout the state.
    38    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    39  have become a law.