Bill Text: NY A00569 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-23 - SIGNED CHAP.399 [A00569 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00569-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           569
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. JAFFEE, WRIGHT -- 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:
     1    Section 1. Section 392 of the social services law, as added by section
     2  3 of part F of chapter 58 of the  laws  of  2010,  is  amended  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    §  392.  Services for relative and non-relative kinship caregivers. 1.
     5  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, when a local
     6  social services district is in contact with a relative  or  non-relative
     7  kinship  caregiver  or a suitable person who the district has approached
     8  about being a kinship caregiver, [local social services districts]  such
     9  district shall [make] provide written information as described in subdi-
    10  vision  two  of  this section to such caregivers or prospective suitable
    11  persons. Such information shall  also  be  made  available  through  the
    12  [district's]  website  [or]  of  both the office and the district and by
    13  other appropriate means [information for]  in  a  manner  accessible  to
    14  relatives  and  non-relatives  caring for children outside of the foster
    15  care system.
    16    2. Such information shall include but not [necessarily] be limited to:
    17    [1.] a. information relating to child only grants, including  but  not
    18  limited to, how to apply for child only grants; [and]
    19    b.  information  about how to become a kinship foster parent and other
    20  options for care; and
    21    [2.] c. information on how to contact the department of family assist-
    22  ance [or] kinship programs and any resources funded through or operating
    23  in the local [department of] social services [funded resources] district
    24  for relative and non-relative kinship caregivers, including  those  that
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02788-01-9
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     1  provide  supportive  services  for all relative and non-relative kinship
     2  caregivers in the district.
     3    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.