Bill Text: NY A08341 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the office of children and family services to conduct a study on the family assessment response program; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to children and families [A08341 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08341-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8341

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Children and Families

        AN ACT authorizing and directing  the  office  of  children  and  family
          services to conduct a study on the family assessment response program;
          and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration there-
          of

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The office of children and family services, in  conjunction
     2  with  the  inspector  general,  is  authorized and directed to conduct a
     3  study on the family assessment response program. Such study shall:
     4    (a) determine if the program is accomplishing the  program's  intended
     5  goals;
     6    (b) determine if the program is being operated as designed;
     7    (c) identify areas where the program can be improved;
     8    (d)  suggest changes to the program to improve areas where the program
     9  needs improvement;
    10    (e) specify why certain areas of the program require changes;
    11    (f) identify if the application  and/or  approval  process  localities
    12  utilize for approval of family assessment response program plans require
    13  updates or modifications;
    14    (g)  determine  if  the  program  is worth expanding across the state,
    15  making the program either an opt-out or mandatory program;
    16    (h) examine the potential mandated expansion of the family  assessment
    17  response  program  in  the state of New York, including, but not limited
    18  to:
    19    (i) how has the program worked in localities which have  adopted  such
    20  family  assessment  response  program  via  application  approved by the
    21  office of children and family services;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (ii) the frequency with  which  child  protective  services'  investi-
     2  gations  are  initiated  into  a familial unit within six months of such
     3  familial unit completing a family assessment response case; and
     4    (iii)  the percentage of children alleged to be maltreated in a family
     5  assessment response case who are later determined to be maltreated in  a
     6  subsequent child protective services' investigation within six months of
     7  the closure of such family assessment response case; and
     8    (i)  study anything else the office of children and family services or
     9  the inspector general determines necessary to determine  if  the  family
    10  assessment  response  program  is  working  as  designed,  if  it can be
    11  improved, and if it is worth expanding and/or mandating state-wide.
    12    § 2. The office of children and family services, in  conjunction  with
    13  the inspector general, shall publish a report containing the findings of
    14  the study. Such report shall be delivered to the governor, the temporary
    15  president  of  the senate, and the speaker of the assembly no later than
    16  one year after the effective date of this act.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    18  deemed repealed two years after such effective date.