---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to the provision of and payment for violence prevention programs"
description: "Makes community violence prevention services available, to the extent permitted by federal law, to any Medicaid beneficiary who has received medical treatment for an injury sustained as a result of an act of community violence and has been referred by a certified or licensed health care provider or social services provider to receive community violence prevention services from a qualified violence prevention professional."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 580"
citation: "New York S 580 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brad Hoylman-Sigal"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-05"
last_action: "2023-10-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8917fa5d-5902-4ec2-821c-6af3c8415b31"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S580"
source_hash: "a1aae384c8c62e7be51f9b68d9b5c408f891a16ab9c929477f2f654e203069b6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 580 (2023-2024) — Relates to the provision of and payment for violence prevention programs

Makes community violence prevention services available, to the extent permitted by federal law, to any Medicaid beneficiary who has received medical treatment for an injury sustained as a result of an act of community violence and has been referred by a certified or licensed health care provider or social services provider to receive community violence prevention services from a qualified violence prevention professional.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S580** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S580&term=2023&Text=Y)
2. **S580A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2023/S580A)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **139–1** (pass) · lower
- Rules Vote - Version: A — **20–1** (pass) · upper
- Health Vote — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote - Version: A — **57–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brad Hoylman-Sigal — primary (person)
- Brian Kavanagh — cosponsor (person)
- Cordell Cleare — cosponsor (person)
- James Skoufis — cosponsor (person)
- Julia Salazar — cosponsor (person)
- Nathalia Fernandez — cosponsor (person)
- Samra Brouk — cosponsor (person)
- Zellnor Myrie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-01-05** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** PRINT NUMBER 580A `amendment-passage`
- **2023-05-22** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-22** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1068
- **2023-05-30** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-05-30** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-05-30** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-09** SUBSTITUTED FOR A2893A
- **2023-06-09** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.750
- **2023-06-10** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2023-06-10** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2023-10-13** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2023-10-17** SIGNED CHAP.531 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8917fa5d-5902-4ec2-821c-6af3c8415b31`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).