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.
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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.