S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8047
I N S E N A T E
March 22, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed 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
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14857-01-8