Bill Text: NY A02106 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the New York State Reuniting Families Act; relates to foster care and parents in immigration detention or removal proceedings.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-07-27 - SIGNED CHAP.125 [A02106 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2106
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. KIM, MOSLEY, JAFFEE, CRESPO, STECK, FAHY, FRIEND,
          JEAN-PIERRE,  NIOU  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. ABBATE, COOK,
          PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Fami-
          lies
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to enacting the New
          York State Reuniting Families Act
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New York
     2  State Reuniting Families Act."
     3    § 2. Clause (D) of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (l) of subdivision  3
     4  of  section  384-b of the social services law, as amended by chapter 113
     5  of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
     6    (D) the parent or parents are incarcerated,  involved  in  immigration
     7  removal  proceedings, including detention or deportation, or participat-
     8  ing in a residential substance abuse treatment  program,  or  the  prior
     9  incarceration, involvement in immigration removal proceedings, including
    10  detention  or  deportation, or participation of a parent or parents in a
    11  residential substance abuse treatment program is a significant factor in
    12  why the child has been in foster care for fifteen of the last twenty-two
    13  months, provided that the parent maintains  a  meaningful  role  in  the
    14  child's life based on the criteria set forth in subparagraph (v) of this
    15  paragraph and the agency has not documented a reason why it would other-
    16  wise be appropriate to file a petition pursuant to this section.
    17    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03634-01-9