Bill Text: NY A02995 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to written notification to schools of a student's placement in foster care.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to children and families [A02995 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A02995-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2995
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 22, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CLARK,  ROSENTHAL,  JAFFEE,  GALEF, MILLMAN,
         ROBERTS, HOOPER, AUBRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN,
         COLTON, McLAUGHLIN, SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Children and Families
       AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to written notifi-
         cation to schools of a student's placement in foster care
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
    2  405 to read as follows:
    3    S 405. NOTIFICATION TO SCHOOLS OF FOSTER CARE PLACEMENT. 1.   WHENEVER
    4  A CHILD PLACED IN FOSTER FAMILY CARE OR AN AGENCY BOARDING HOME OR GROUP
    5  HOME WHO IS A PUBLIC CHARGE IN A SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT IS ADMITTED TO
    6  A  SCHOOL,  AN OFFICIAL WITHIN THAT SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT OR AN OFFI-
    7  CIAL OF THE AUTHORIZED AGENCY ACTING ON THE CHILD'S BEHALF  IN  BOARDING
    8  OUT  SUCH  CHILD,  SHALL  SEND  WRITTEN NOTIFICATION TO THE PRINCIPAL OR
    9  PRINCIPAL'S DESIGNEE OF THE SCHOOL IN WHICH THE CHILD IS  ENROLLED  THAT
   10  SAID  CHILD IS IN FOSTER FAMILY CARE OR AN AGENCY BOARDING HOME OR GROUP
   11  HOME. SUCH NOTIFICATION MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE PRINCIPAL OR PRINCIPAL'S
   12  DESIGNEE NO LATER THAN THE FIRST  DAY  DURING  WHICH  THE  CHILD  IS  IN
   13  ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL AND MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
   14    (A) THE NAME OF SUCH CHILD;
   15    (B)  THE  DATE OF BIRTH OF SUCH CHILD, IF ASCERTAINABLE, OR HIS OR HER
   16  APPARENT AGE;
   17    (C) THE NAMES AND ADDRESS OF THE FOSTER PARENTS OR, WHERE  APPLICABLE,
   18  THE NAME OF THE CHILD CARE AGENCY AND THE ADDRESS OF THE AGENCY BOARDING
   19  HOME OR GROUP HOME;
   20    (D)  THE  NAME AND LOCATION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN WHICH SUCH CHILD
   21  RESIDED AT THE TIME HE OR SHE BECAME A PUBLIC CHARGE IN FOSTER CARE;
   22    (E) THE NAME AND LOCATION OF THE SCHOOL LAST ATTENDED  BY  SUCH  CHILD
   23  PRIOR TO HIS OR HER CURRENT ADMISSION; AND
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00989-01-3
       A. 2995                             2
    1    (F)  THE  NAME  AND LOCATION OF THE LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES COMMISSIONER
    2  CARING FOR SUCH CHILD, AND THE NAME AND LOCATION OF ANY AUTHORIZED AGEN-
    3  CY ACTING ON HIS OR HER BEHALF.
    4    2.  ANY  INFORMATION  GATHERED OR DISSEMINATED ABOUT A CHILD PLACED IN
    5  FOSTER FAMILY CARE OR AN AGENCY BOARDING HOME OR GROUP HOME PURSUANT  TO
    6  THIS  SECTION SHALL BE TREATED IN A CONFIDENTIAL MANNER AND SHALL NOT BE
    7  DISTRIBUTED,  MADE  AVAILABLE  OR  DISCLOSED  BY  THE  SOCIAL   SERVICES
    8  DISTRICT, AUTHORIZED AGENCY OR SCHOOL OTHER THAN AS SPECIFICALLY PERMIT-
    9  TED BY SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   11  it shall have become a law.