STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 922 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 9, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to certain payments for the financial support of a foster child The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 398-a of the social services law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 2-d to read as follows: 3 (2-d) The regulations of the department established pursuant to this 4 section shall provide for payments for the financial support of a foster 5 child for one week following the termination of their foster care 6 status. Such payments shall be at the same schedule and rate as when 7 such child was in foster care. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 9 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02623-01-3