2025-2026 General Assembly

S.03149

Establishes the child victims act fund which provides grant awards in reimbursement to public school districts and voluntary foster care agencies located within the state who have been named as defendants in certain child sexual abuse legal cases and in which it can be demonstrated by the public school district or voluntary foster care agency that no insurance policy for the covered period can be located after a good-faith effort to do so has been made, there was a monetary judgment issued or settlement agreement with regard to such action and where it can be demonstrated by the public school district or voluntary foster care agency that payment in full of such judgment or settlement would put a substantial burden on the district's or agency's ability to execute its mission and negatively impact its existing student population.

Establishes the child victims act fund to provide grants to public school districts and foster care agencies in certain child sexual abuse cases.

The bill establishes the child victims act fund, a special fund in the custody of the commissioner of taxation and finance, the comptroller, and the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services. The fund provides grant awards to public school districts and voluntary foster care agencies in New York who have been named as defendants in child sexual abuse cases.

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S.03149

Establishes the child victims act fund to provide grants to public school districts and foster care agencies in certain child sexual abuse cases.

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