STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8287 IN SENATE February 9, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- 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 24 pursuant to a plan prepared and approved by the speaker of the assembly 25 and submitted to the commissioner and the director of the budget which 26 sets forth either an itemized list of grantees with the amount to be 27 received by each, or the methodology for allocating such appropriations. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14643-01-2

S. 8287 2 1 4. Pursuant to a plan prepared by the commissioner and approved by the 2 director of the budget, no less than twenty million dollars annually 3 shall be made available and awarded to grantees providing services in 4 counties throughout the state; provided, however, that such plan shall 5 provide an annual award in a dollar amount no less than that provided in 6 the following sub-schedule: 7 Sub-schedule 8 Albany County .................... 1,000,000 9 Dutchess County .................... 400,000 10 Erie County ...................... 1,250,000 11 Monroe County ...................... 800,000 12 Nassau County ...................... 500,000 13 Niagara County ..................... 250,000 14 Oneida County ...................... 250,000 15 Onondaga County .................... 750,000 16 Orange County ...................... 250,000 17 Rensselaer County .................. 500,000 18 Rockland County .................... 250,000 19 Schenectady County ................. 250,000 20 Suffolk County ..................... 500,000 21 Ulster County ...................... 250,000 22 Westchester County ............... 1,500,000 23 New York City (Bronx County) ..... 1,500,000 24 New York City (Kings County) ..... 1,500,000 25 New York City (New York County) .. 1,300,000 26 New York City (Queens County) .... 1,500,000 27 New York City (Richmond County) .... 500,000 28 -------------- 29 Total of sub-schedule ......... 15,000,000 30 The commissioner may use at least five million dollars annually to 31 increase funding provided to counties listed in the sub-schedule or 32 expand operation SNUG programs and services to additional counties 33 throughout the state. 34 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 35 have become a law.

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