A 481: Directs social services districts to contract with non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence to provide outreach and education to students in public and private high schools; provides for state reimbursement therefor.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 481 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, DINOWITZ, DE LOS SANTOS, JENSEN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing school-outreach domestic violence prevention programs The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 459-a of the social services law, 2 as amended by chapter 169 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 5. "Non-residential program for victims of domestic violence" means 5 any program operated by a not-for-profit organization, for the purpose 6 of providing non-residential services to victims of domestic violence, 7 including, but not limited to, information and referral services, advo- 8 cacy, counseling, and community education and outreach activities and 9 providing or arranging for hotline services. Victims of domestic 10 violence and their children, if any, shall constitute at least seventy 11 percent of the clientele of such programs; provided that clientele in a 12 school-outreach domestic violence prevention program shall be disre- 13 garded in making this calculation. 14 § 2. Section 459-c of the social services law is amended by adding a 15 new subdivision 3 to read as follows: 16 3. (a) In accordance with the provisions of this subdivision and the 17 regulations of the office of children and family services, a social 18 services district shall purchase from a not-for-profit organization 19 operating a non-residential program for victims of domestic violence and 20 provide to students within public and private high school settings a 21 program of information and referral services, advocacy, counseling, and 22 education about domestic violence. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02095-01-5 
 A. 481 2 1 (b) To the extent that funds are appropriated expressly therefor, 2 state reimbursement shall be available for one hundred percent of the 3 expenditures made by a social services district for programs provided 4 pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision. 5 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 6 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 7 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 8 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or 9 before such effective date.