A 6553: Directs the New York city mayor's office of criminal justice to provide comprehensive services to 9,000 individuals identified as having a persistent pattern of involvement in the New York city criminal justice system; provides that income from vocational programs shall not be considered for purposes of determining public assistance.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6553 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 6, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Correction AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, the social services law and the executive law, in relation to providing comprehensive services to individuals with a persistent pattern of involvement in the criminal justice system; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "the 9,000 2 act". 3 § 2. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended by 4 adding a new section 9-313 to read as follows: 5 § 9-313 Comprehensive services to prevent recidivism. 1. The office 6 shall identify no more than ninety-five hundred individuals with a 7 persistent pattern of arrest and failure to appear in court and, in 8 conjunction with: the office for neighborhood safety and the prevention 9 of gun violence, the department of health and mental hygiene, the 10 department of social services, the department of homeless services, the 11 department of education, the state division of criminal justice 12 services, the state office of temporary and disability assistance, the 13 state office of children and family services, the state department of 14 education, the state office of mental health, and the state office of 15 addiction services and supports, engage with as many of such identified 16 individuals as possible to provide comprehensive services including, but 17 not limited to, education, vocational training, housing, financial 18 support, healthcare, and mental healthcare. No provision of services 19 under this program shall be contingent on a criminal background check of 20 such individuals. 21 2. Any individual identified by the office who stands charged with a 22 violation or a misdemeanor shall be offered a plea in satisfaction of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09503-03-5 
 A. 6553 2 1 such charges if such individual agrees to and participates in the 2 comprehensive services program under this section. 3 3. An incarcerated individual who is identified under this section and 4 who is eligible for presumptive release, parole, conditional release or 5 release to post-release supervision prior to the expiration of their 6 full term of imprisonment or maximum term for parole shall be entitled 7 to such relief on the condition of participation in the program under 8 this section; provided, however, that the department of corrections and 9 community supervision may exercise discretion in allowing the release of 10 persons convicted of the following offenses: (a) a violent felony 11 offense as defined in section 70.02 of the penal law; (b) murder in the 12 first degree or murder in the second degree; (c) an offense defined in 13 article one hundred thirty of the penal law; (d) unlawful imprisonment 14 in the first degree, kidnapping in the first degree, or kidnapping in 15 the second degree, in which the victim is less than seventeen years old 16 and the offender is not the parent of the victim; (e) an offense defined 17 in article two hundred thirty of the penal law involving the prostitu- 18 tion of a person less than nineteen years old; (f) disseminating inde- 19 cent material to minors in the first degree or disseminating indecent 20 material to minors in the second degree; (g) an offense defined in arti- 21 cle two hundred sixty-three of the penal law; or (h) a hate crime as 22 defined in section 485.05 of the penal law. 23 4. Every five years, the office shall issue a report on outcomes of 24 program participants with respect to re-arrests, health, housing securi- 25 ty, and educational outcomes, including the association between each 26 service and the probability of re-arrest. 27 § 3. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of section 131-a of the social 28 services law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (xiv) to read as 29 follows: 30 (xiv) all of the income of a dependent child or dependent adult living 31 with a parent or other caretaker relative, which is derived from partic- 32 ipation in a vocational training or other employment program in 33 connection with services provided through a recidivism prevention 34 program under section 9-313 of the administrative code of the city of 35 New York. 36 § 4. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 259-u to 37 read as follows: 38 § 259-u. Parole eligibility for certain incarcerated individuals iden- 39 tified by the New York city office of criminal justice. Any incarcerated 40 individual eligible for discharge of sentence pursuant to this article 41 shall be entitled to and shall receive an absolute discharge from 42 presumptive release, parole, conditional release or release to a period 43 of post-release supervision on condition of participation in the program 44 provided for by section 9-313 of the administrative code of the city of 45 New York. 46 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 47 deemed repealed ten years after it shall have become a law.