Bill Text: NY A08761 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
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 ________________________________________________________________________ 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. LBD14030-03-9A. 8761--A 2 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.