Section 631-A. Crime victim service programs

1. The crime victims board
  shall make grants, within amounts appropriated  for  that  purpose,  for
  crime  victim  service programs to provide services to crime victims and
  witnesses. These programs shall be operated at the  community  level  by
  not-for-profit  organizations, by agencies of local government or by any
  combination thereof. Crime victim service programs may  be  designed  to
  serve  crime victims and witnesses in general in a particular community,
  or may be designed to serve a category of  persons  with  special  needs
  relating to a particular kind of crime.
    2.  The  crime victims board shall promulgate regulations, relating to
  these grants, including guidelines for its determinations.
    (a) These regulations shall be designed to promote:
    (i) alternative funding sources other than the state, including  local
  government and private sources;
    (ii)  coordination of public and private efforts to aid crime victims;
  and
    (iii) long range development of services to all victims  of  crime  in
  the  community  and  to  all  victims and witnesses involved in criminal
  prosecutions.
    (b) These regulations shall also provide for services  including,  but
  not limited to:
    (i)   assistance  to  claimants  seeking  crime  victims  compensation
  benefits;
    (ii) referrals, crisis intervention and other counseling services;
    (iii) services to elderly victims  and  to  child  victims  and  their
  families;
    (iv) transportation and household assistance; and
    (v)  outreach  to  the  community  and  education  and training of law
  enforcement and other criminal justice officials to the needs  of  crime
  victims.
    3.  The  crime  victims  board  shall  prepare an annual report to the
  governor and the legislature, on or before December first of  each  year
  on crime victim service programs; including:
    (a) the programs funded by the board;
    (b) other sources of funding for crime victim service programs;
    (c)   an   assessment   of  the  adequacy  of  the  current  level  of
  appropriation to the board to meet the reasonable needs of crime  victim
  service programs for funding under this section; and
    (d) an estimate of the reasonable needs of programs in the next fiscal
  year.