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Assembly Bill A9956

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to services for relative and non-relative kinship caregivers

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2017-A9956 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8047
Current Committee:
Senate Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §392, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A569, S2714

2017-A9956 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that when a local social services district is in contact with a relative or non-relative kinship caregiver or a suitable person who the district has approached about being a kinship caregiver, such district shall provide written information to such caregivers or prospective suitable persons; further provides that such information shall include, but not be limited to, information relating to child only grants; information about how to become a kinship foster parent and other options for care; and information on how to contact the department of family assistance kinship programs and any resources funded through or operating in the local social services district for relative and non-relative kinship caregivers, including those that provide supportive services for all relative and non-relative kinship caregivers in the district.

2017-A9956 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9956
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 1, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. JAFFEE, HEVESI -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in  relation  to  services  for
   relative and non-relative kinship caregivers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 392 of the social services law, as added by section
 3 of part F of chapter 58 of the  laws  of  2010,  is  amended  read  as
 follows:
   §  392.  Services for relative AND NON-RELATIVE KINSHIP caregivers. 1.
 Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, WHEN A LOCAL
 SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT IS IN CONTACT WITH A RELATIVE  OR  NON-RELATIVE
 KINSHIP  CAREGIVER  OR A SUITABLE PERSON WHO THE DISTRICT HAS APPROACHED
 ABOUT BEING A KINSHIP CAREGIVER, [local social services districts]  SUCH
 DISTRICT shall [make] PROVIDE WRITTEN INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN SUBDI-
 VISION  TWO  OF  THIS SECTION TO SUCH CAREGIVERS OR PROSPECTIVE SUITABLE
 PERSONS. SUCH INFORMATION SHALL  ALSO  BE  MADE  available  through  the
 [district's]  website  [or]  OF  BOTH THE OFFICE AND THE DISTRICT AND by
 other APPROPRIATE means [information for]  IN  A  MANNER  ACCESSIBLE  TO
 relatives  AND  NON-RELATIVES  caring for children outside of the foster
 care system.
   2. Such information shall include but not [necessarily] be limited to:
   [1.] A. information relating to child only grants, including  but  not
 limited to, how to apply for child only grants; [and]
   B.  INFORMATION  ABOUT HOW TO BECOME A KINSHIP FOSTER PARENT AND OTHER
 OPTIONS FOR CARE; AND
   [2.] C. information on HOW TO CONTACT THE department of family assist-
 ance [or] KINSHIP PROGRAMS AND ANY RESOURCES FUNDED THROUGH OR OPERATING
 IN THE local [department of] social services [funded resources] DISTRICT
 for relative AND NON-RELATIVE KINSHIP caregivers, including  those  that
 provide  supportive  services  for ALL relative AND NON-RELATIVE KINSHIP
 caregivers IN THE DISTRICT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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