Bill Text: NY A08761 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8761 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to the caseloads of preventative services caseworkers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to children and families [A08761 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08761-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8761--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 25, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Children  and  Families  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to caseload stand-
          ards for preventative services caseworkers

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

     1    Section  1. Section 20-a of the social services law, as added by chap-
     2  ter 107 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 20-a.  Local personnel; limitations on department's power.  Notwith-
     4  standing any inconsistent provision of  this  chapter,  the  board,  the
     5  commissioner  or  the  department, acting singly or in unison, shall not
     6  have the power, directly  or  indirectly  to  prescribe  the  number  of
     7  persons  to  be  employed  in any social services district providing the
     8  district complies with the minimum federal standards  relating  thereto.
     9  Provided,  however,  that the provisions of this section shall not apply
    10  to the regulations of the office of children and family services  estab-
    11  lishing  caseload  standards  for  preventative  case  planning services
    12  promulgated pursuant to subdivision nine of section four  hundred  twen-
    13  ty-one of this chapter.
    14    §  2.  Paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 1 of section 153-k of the social
    15  services law, as added by section 15 of part C of chapter 83 of the laws
    16  of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
    17    (a) Expenditures made by social services districts for  child  protec-
    18  tive  services, preventive services provided, as applicable, to eligible
    19  children and families of children who are in  and  out  of  foster  care
    20  placement, independent living services, aftercare services, and adoption
    21  administration  and  services  other  than  adoption  subsidies provided
    22  pursuant to article six of this  chapter  and  the  regulations  of  the
    23  department  of  family  assistance  shall,  if approved by the office of
    24  children and family services, be subject  to  sixty-five  percent  state

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14030-03-9

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     1  reimbursement  exclusive  of  any  federal funds made available for such
     2  purposes, in accordance with the directives of the department of  family
     3  assistance  and  subject  to the approval of the director of the budget.
     4  Provided  however,  for  requirements  prescribed in subdivision nine of
     5  section four hundred twenty-one of this chapter, such expenditures shall
     6  be subject to one hundred percent  state  reimbursement,  provided  that
     7  local  social  services  districts  continue  to  maintain  expenditures
     8  related to preventative case planning services at a level  equal  to  or
     9  greater than expenditures for such activity during the fiscal year imme-
    10  diately  prior  to  the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two
    11  thousand nineteen which amended this paragraph.
    12    § 3. Section 421 of the social services law is amended by adding a new
    13  subdivision 9 to read as follows:
    14    9. promulgate regulations in consultation with local  social  services
    15  districts, relating to caseload standards for preventative case planning
    16  services. Such standards shall be no more than twelve families per full-
    17  time  preventative case planning services caseworker per month.  Nothing
    18  in this subdivision shall be  construed  to  prohibit  the  office  from
    19  prescribing  local  social services districts from establishing caseload
    20  guidelines that are less than what is required in this subdivision.
    21    § 4. This act shall take effect two years after it shall have become a
    22  law; provided, however that the  amendments  to  section  153-k  of  the
    23  social services law made by section two of this act shall not affect the
    24  repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.