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A767Assembly2025-2026 SessionSame asS643

Fund Youth Justice Programs

Official title

“Establishes the youth justice innovation fund”

Sponsor Michaelle C. SolagesAD-22+22 co-sponsorsAffects Finance
Status
Stricken
Impact
7/10
Significant
Passage
25%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Ways And Means

What's happening

This bill creates a $50 million Youth Justice Innovation Fund to support community programs preventing youth crime and promoting development.

Why it matters

  1. Expands funding eligibility up to age 25. , allowing programs to serve a broader range of young people, including emerging adults who are statistically at higher risk for justice system involvement.

  2. Directs resources specifically to community-based organizations. , supporting local, non-governmental solutions for youth violence prevention, alternatives to incarceration, and reentry programs, which can be more responsive to community needs.

  3. Mandates annual public reporting on fund use and outcomes. , increasing transparency and accountability about how state money is spent, who receives it, and what programs are prioritized.

  4. Allows for additional private or federal contributions. , enabling the fund to grow beyond the initial $50 million and potentially support more or larger-scale youth justice initiatives.

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Fund Youth Justice Programs

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Michaelle C. Solages

Assembly Member · Assembly District 22

Chair, Local Governments

History

  1. Enacting clause stricken
  2. Referred to ways and means

Companion bill

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S643Senate

Fund Youth Justice Programs

In Senate Committee · Finance · Sponsor Cordell Cleare

Impact 7 · Significant29% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

767

2025-2026 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)

January 8, 2025

Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, HEVESI, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, BRONSON, CRUZ, TAYLOR, CLARK, KELLES, LUNSFORD, SIMON, CHANDLER-WATERMAN, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the youth justice innovation fund

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

Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 89-gg to read as follows:

§ 89-gg. Youth justice innovation fund. 1. A fund to be known as the "youth justice innovation fund" is hereby established in the custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance.

2. The fund shall consist of fifty million dollars transferred to such account pursuant to a plan developed by the director of the budget from funds made available for the purposes of funding services for youth through the age of twenty-five, and any interest earnings which may accrue from the investment of monies in the fund. Nothing contained herein shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into the fund according to law.

3. Monies of the fund shall be available to the division of criminal justice services and shall be provided to community-based organizations to be expended for services and programs with the purpose of youth development and preventing youth arrest and incarceration, including, but not limited to, those providing violence-prevention services for youth, alternatives to detention, placement and incarceration programs for youth, and reentry, education, and employment training and placement programs for youth through the age of twenty-five.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD01830-01-5

4. On or before the first day of March of each year, the director of the division of criminal justice services shall provide a written report to the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate, the minority leader of the assembly, the chair of the senate finance committee, the chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the chair of the senate committee on codes, the chair of the assembly committee on codes, the state comptroller, and the public. Such report shall include how the monies of the fund were utilized during the preceding calendar year, and shall include:

(a) the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award process used for such disbursements;

(b) recipients of awards from the fund;

(c) the amount awarded to each recipient;

(d) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and

(e) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include estimates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and succeeding fiscal years, along with the actual results from the prior fiscal year.

5. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the director of the division of criminal justice services.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to expenditures made on and after April 1, 2025.

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