Bill Text: NY S02585 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires OCFS to provide information relating to post adoption services on its website in certain languages for those with limited English proficiency; requires authorized agencies to advise foster parents of the availability of such information in such languages.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-12-09 - SIGNED CHAP.659 [S02585 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02585-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2585

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 22, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sen. BRISPORT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  agen-
          cies to provide potential adoptive parents with information concerning
          state-funded  benefits  or  services  received  by a foster child that
          expire upon adoption

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  372-f  of  the social services law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5. The office of children and family services shall  promulgate  regu-
     4  lations  which shall require authorized agencies in the state to provide
     5  a foster parent, who has expressed interest in adopting a foster  child,
     6  with a list of any publicly-funded benefits or services that such foster
     7  child  will  be  eligible  for upon the adoption of such foster child as
     8  well as a list of any publicly-funded benefits  or  services  that  such
     9  foster  child  is  currently  eligible  for,  but  shall expire upon the
    10  adoption of such foster child. If a service  shall  expire,  information
    11  shall  be  provided  on if that service is available in the community or
    12  how that service can be obtained  from  other  private  sources.    Such
    13  information  shall  be  made  available  to  the public on such office's
    14  website.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08757-01-1