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                                        7867--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 19, 2011
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       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:
    1    Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 and paragraph (d) of subdi-
    2  vision 3 of section 98-b of the state  finance  law,  paragraph  (a)  of
    3  subdivision  2 as amended and paragraph (d) of subdivision 3 as added by
    4  section 2 of part E of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010,  are  amended  to
    5  read as follows:
    6    (a)  The  purpose of such fund shall be to (i) assist counties and, in
    7  the case of a county wholly contained  within  a  city,  such  city,  in
    8  providing legal representation for persons who are financially unable to
    9  afford  counsel  pursuant  to article eighteen-B of the county law; (ii)
   10  assist the state, in improving the quality of  public  defense  services
   11  and  funding representation provided by assigned counsel paid in accord-
   12  ance with section thirty-five of the judiciary law; [and] (iii)  provide
   13  support for the operations, duties, responsibilities and expenses of the
   14  office  of indigent legal services and the indigent legal services board
   15  established, respectively, pursuant to sections eight hundred thirty-two
   16  and eight hundred thirty-three of the executive law;  AND  (IV)  PROVIDE
   17  FOR SERVICES AND EXPENSES OF THE PUBLIC DEFENSE BACKUP CENTER OF THE NEW
   18  YORK STATE DEFENDERS ASSOCIATION.
   19    (d)  AN ANNUAL AMOUNT OF THREE MILLION DOLLARS SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE
   20  TO THE NEW YORK STATE DEFENDERS  ASSOCIATION  FROM  SUCH  FUND  FOR  THE
   21  SERVICES AND EXPENSES OF ITS PUBLIC DEFENSE BACKUP CENTER.
   22    (E)  Remaining  amounts  within such fund, after accounting for annual
   23  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
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    1  subdivision  and  subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision two
    2  of this section shall be distributed in accordance with  sections  eight
    3  hundred thirty-two and eight hundred thirty-three of the executive law.
    4    S 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2012.