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Assembly Bill A7596

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Limits the number of cases a foster care worker may have under his or her supervision at any one time to 16 cases

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2025-A7596 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6753
Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §409-g, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6118
2021-2022: S2587
2023-2024: S5031

2025-A7596 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the number of cases a foster care worker may have under their supervision at any one time to 16 cases.

2025-A7596 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7596
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 1, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Social Services
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to limitations on
   the number of cases handled by child welfare personnel
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The section heading of section 409-g of the social services
 law,  as added by chapter 611 of the laws of 1979, is amended to read as
 follows:
   Training of child welfare personnel; LIMITATION ON CASELOADS.
   § 2. Section 409-g of the social services law is amended by  adding  a
 new closing paragraph to read as follows:
   NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, THE NUMBER OF CASES UNDER
 THE SUPERVISION OF ANY FOSTER CARE WORKER SHALL NOT  EXCEED  SIXTEEN  AT
 ANY ONE TIME.
   §  3.  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.
                                                            LBD11227-01-5

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