Bill Text: NY A10428 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Defines the term kinship caregiver.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-21 - ordered to third reading rules cal.269 [A10428 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10428-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10428

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 11, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  -- (at request of M. of A. Hevesi,
          Jaffee) -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Children  and
          Families

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social  services law, in relation to defining a
          kinship caregiver

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

     1    Section 1. Section 371 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 22 to read as follows:
     3    22. "Kinship caregiver" means a relative or non-relative who is acting
     4  as a parent and who:
     5    (a) is related to the child through blood, marriage or adoption;
     6    (b)  is related to a half-sibling of the child through blood, marriage
     7  or adoption; or
     8    (c) is an adult with a positive prior relationship with the  child,  a
     9  half-sibling  of  the  child  or  the child's parent, including, but not
    10  limited to, a step-parent, godparent, neighbor or family friend.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16201-01-0