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Assembly Bill A7616

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires agencies to provide potential adoptive parents with information concerning state-funded benefits or services available once the foster child is adopted as well as those that expire upon adoption

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2017-A7616 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1772
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §372-f, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9591
2013-2014: A2891
2015-2016: A4572, A10098, S4976
2019-2020: A570, S4004
2021-2022: A6665, S2585

2017-A7616 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires agencies to provide potential adoptive parents with information concerning state-funded benefits or services available once the foster child is adopted as well as those that expire upon adoption.

2017-A7616 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7616
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Children and Families
 
 AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring agen-
   cies to provide potential adoptive parents with information concerning
   state-funded benefits or services received  by  a  foster  child  that
   expire upon adoption

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 372-f of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5.  THE  OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES SHALL PROMULGATE REGU-
 LATIONS WHICH SHALL REQUIRE AUTHORIZED AGENCIES IN THE STATE TO  PROVIDE
 A  FOSTER PARENT, WHO HAS EXPRESSED INTEREST IN ADOPTING A FOSTER CHILD,
 WITH A LIST OF ANY PUBLICLY-FUNDED BENEFITS OR SERVICES THAT SUCH FOSTER
 CHILD WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR UPON THE ADOPTION OF  SUCH  FOSTER  CHILD  AS
 WELL  AS  A  LIST  OF ANY PUBLICLY-FUNDED BENEFITS OR SERVICES THAT SUCH
 FOSTER CHILD IS CURRENTLY  ELIGIBLE  FOR,  BUT  SHALL  EXPIRE  UPON  THE
 ADOPTION  OF  SUCH  FOSTER CHILD. IF A SERVICE SHALL EXPIRE, INFORMATION
 SHALL BE PROVIDED ON IF THAT SERVICE IS AVAILABLE IN  THE  COMMUNITY  OR
 HOW  THAT  SERVICE  CAN  BE  OBTAINED FROM OTHER PRIVATE SOURCES.   SUCH
 INFORMATION SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE  TO  THE  PUBLIC  ON  SUCH  OFFICE'S
 WEBSITE.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01982-01-7

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