A7867A-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: referred to ways and means
• Nov 16, 2011: print number 7867a
• Nov 16, 2011: amend and recommit to ways and means
• May 19, 2011: referred to ways and means

A7867A-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 7867--A
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  ASSEMBLY
 May 19, 2011
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on  Ways  and  Means  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 

AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation  to  providing  funds
 for  the  public defense backup center of the New York State Defenders
 Association
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 and paragraph (d) of subdi
 vision 3 of section 98-b of the state  finance  law,  paragraph  (a)  of
 subdivision  2 as amended and paragraph (d) of subdivision 3 as added by
 section 2 of part E of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010,  are  amended  to
 read as follows:

 (a)  The  purpose of such fund shall be to (i) assist counties and, in
 the case of a county wholly contained  within  a  city,  such  city,  in
 providing legal representation for persons who are financially unable to
 afford  counsel  pursuant  to article eighteen-B of the county law; (ii)
 assist the state, in improving the quality of  public  defense  services
 and  funding representation provided by assigned counsel paid in accord
 ance with section thirty-five of the judiciary law; [and] (iii)  provide
 support for the operations, duties, responsibilities and expenses of the
 office  of indigent legal services and the indigent legal services board
 established, respectively, pursuant to sections eight hundred thirty-two
 and eight hundred thirty-three of the executive law;  AND  (IV)  PROVIDE
 FOR SERVICES AND EXPENSES OF THE PUBLIC DEFENSE BACKUP CENTER OF THE NEW
 YORK STATE DEFENDERS ASSOCIATION.
 (d)  AN ANNUAL AMOUNT OF THREE MILLION DOLLARS SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE
 TO THE NEW YORK STATE DEFENDERS  ASSOCIATION  FROM  SUCH  FUND  FOR  THE
 SERVICES AND EXPENSES OF ITS PUBLIC DEFENSE BACKUP CENTER.
 (E)  Remaining  amounts  within such fund, after accounting for annual
 payments required in paragraphs (a), (b) [and],  (c)  AND  (D)  of  this
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11387-04-1
 
       A. 7867--A                          2
 subdivision  and  subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision two
 of this section shall be distributed in accordance with  sections  eight
 hundred thirty-two and eight hundred thirty-three of the executive law.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2012.

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