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Mar 12, 2018 | referred to children and families delivered to senate passed assembly |
Mar 08, 2018 | advanced to third reading cal.712 |
Mar 06, 2018 | reported |
Mar 01, 2018 | referred to children and families |
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Andrew Hevesi
Tremaine Wright
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:
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A569, S2714
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.
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