Bill Text: NY A10513 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the office of children and family services to collect data on child welfare preventive services by local social services district and compile an annual report to be submitted to the governor and legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-12-15 - approval memo.36 [A10513 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10513-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10513

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 22, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Hevesi) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  reporting  data
          on child welfare preventive services

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

     1    Section 1. Section 409-a of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     3    11.  (a)  The office of children and family services shall collect the
     4  following data regarding preventive services, as defined in section four
     5  hundred nine of this title, and compile an annual report on such data by
     6  local social services district:
     7    (i) the total number of children  and  families  receiving  preventive
     8  services at the end of each month;
     9    (ii)  the  total  annual  number of unduplicated children and families
    10  receiving preventive services including how many  new  preventive  cases
    11  were opened during the preceding calendar year and to the extent practi-
    12  cable, the referral source for each new case;
    13    (iii) the average length of time preventive services were provided for
    14  each  child  or family during the preceding calendar year, as well as an
    15  indication of whether such case had been closed during such year;
    16    (iv) a descriptive list of the services and their utilization rate  in
    17  each  local  social  services  district which utilize preventive service
    18  funding as allowable under section one  hundred  fifty-three-k  of  this
    19  chapter;
    20    (v)  a descriptive list, and their utilization rate if practicable, of
    21  other preventive services provided by a local social  services  district
    22  that does not utilize preventive service funding pursuant to section one
    23  hundred  fifty-three-k  of this chapter. For purposes of this paragraph,
    24  other preventive services  shall  include  primary  preventive  services
    25  which may be funded through community optional preventive services fund-
    26  ing, home visiting funds or other federal, state or local funds;
    27    (vi)  the  total number of children who entered foster care during the
    28  preceding calendar year who had  received  preventive  services  at  any

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  point  during  the  twelve-months prior to their entry into foster care;
     2  and
     3    (vii)  any  other  information  the commissioner may deem necessary to
     4  include in said report.
     5    (b) The office of children  and  family  services  shall  submit  such
     6  report to the governor, the speaker of the assembly, the temporary pres-
     7  ident  of  the senate, the chairpersons of the assembly and senate chil-
     8  dren and families committees, the chairperson of the assembly  ways  and
     9  means  committee  and  the  chairperson  of the senate finance committee
    10  starting no later than September first, two  thousand  twenty-one.  Such
    11  report  shall  include data and information required by paragraph (a) of
    12  this subdivision for the preceding calendar year,  to  the  extent  such
    13  information  is  available.  When practicable, such information shall be
    14  disaggregated by age, sex, race and ethnicity.
    15    (c) The initial report shall include the aforementioned data from  the
    16  preceding two calendar years.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.