S 5455: Creates the criminal justice infrastructure investment grant program which provides grants to municipalities, courts, sheriffs' offices and district attorneys' offices to provide software and hardware to assist with discovery, speedy trial and bail processes.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5455 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to creating the criminal justice infrastructure investment grant program; and making an appro- priation therefor 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 839-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 839-a. Criminal justice infrastructure investment grant program. 1. 4 There is hereby created within the division a criminal justice infras- 5 tructure investment grant program to be administered by the commissioner 6 to award grants to provide for hardware and software to be used to 7 assist with discovery, speedy trials and bail including, but not limited 8 to, computers, laptops, high speed printers, optical scanners, modems, 9 routers, high speed fiber optics cable, cloud storage and electronic 10 monitors. 11 2. Any department of any municipality having responsibility for 12 enforcing the criminal laws of the state, any court in the unified court 13 system, sheriffs' offices and district attorneys' offices shall be 14 eligible to submit applications to receive funds from the grant program 15 pursuant to this section. A grant may be awarded upon submission of an 16 application to the commissioner and there shall be no minimum grant 17 amount. 18 3. The commissioner shall establish the form and manner in which 19 applications shall be submitted and shall establish guidelines for the 20 program. The department shall review each application for compliance 21 with the eligibility criteria and other requirements set forth in the 22 program guidelines. The department may approve or reject each applica- 23 tion or may return an application for modifications. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09686-01-5 
 S. 5455 2 1 4. The division shall post on its website the following information 2 with regards to applications approved pursuant to this section: 3 (a) the name of each entity approved to receive a grant; 4 (b) the amount of each grant; and 5 (c) a description of the project or projects that each grant will be 6 used for. 7 § 2. The sum of five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000), or so 8 much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the criminal 9 justice infrastructure investment grant program as established pursuant 10 to section 839-a of the executive law from any moneys in the state trea- 11 sury not otherwise appropriated and made immediately available to the 12 division of criminal justice services for the purposes of carrying out 13 the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable on the audit 14 and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the 15 commissioner of criminal justice services in the manner prescribed by 16 law. 17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.