Bill Text: NY S04597 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to written notification to schools of a student's placement in foster care.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S04597 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04597-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4597
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 15, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  PARKER, BAILEY -- 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 written notifi-
          cation to schools of a student's placement in foster care
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
     2  405 to read as follows:
     3    § 405. Notification to schools of foster care placement. 1.   Whenever
     4  a child placed in foster family care or an agency boarding home or group
     5  home who is a public charge in a social services district is admitted to
     6  a  school,  an official within that social services district or an offi-
     7  cial of the authorized agency acting on the child's behalf  in  boarding
     8  out  such  child,  shall  send  written notification to the principal or
     9  principal's designee of the school in which the child is  enrolled  that
    10  said  child is in foster family care or an agency boarding home or group
    11  home. Such notification must be received by the principal or principal's
    12  designee no later than the first  day  during  which  the  child  is  in
    13  attendance at school and must include the following:
    14    (a) the name of such child;
    15    (b)  the  date of birth of such child, if ascertainable, or his or her
    16  apparent age;
    17    (c) the names and address of the foster parents or, where  applicable,
    18  the name of the child care agency and the address of the agency boarding
    19  home or group home;
    20    (d)  the  name and location of the school district in which such child
    21  resided at the time he or she became a public charge in foster care;
    22    (e) the name and location of the school last attended  by  such  child
    23  prior to his or her current admission; and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04511-01-9
        S. 4597                             2
     1    (f)  the  name  and location of the local social services commissioner
     2  caring for such child, and the name and location of any authorized agen-
     3  cy acting on his or her behalf.
     4    2.  Any  information  gathered or disseminated about a child placed in
     5  foster family care or an agency boarding home or group home pursuant  to
     6  this  section shall be treated in a confidential manner and shall not be
     7  distributed,  made  available  or  disclosed  by  the  social   services
     8  district, authorized agency or school other than as specifically permit-
     9  ted by subdivision one of this section.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law.