Bill Text: NY S05024 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the New York State Reuniting Families Act; relates to foster care and parents in immigration detention or removal proceedings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-07-27 - SIGNED CHAP.125 [S05024 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05024-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5024--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      April 3, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sens. PARKER, BAILEY, MONTGOMERY, SEPULVEDA -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Children  and  Families  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to enacting the New
          York State Reuniting Families Act
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the  "New  York
     2  State Reuniting Families Act."
     3    §  2. Clause (D) of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (l) of subdivision 3
     4  of section 384-b of the social services law, as amended by  chapter  113
     5  of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
     6    (D)  the  parent or parents are incarcerated, in immigration detention
     7  or immigration removal proceedings, or participating  in  a  residential
     8  substance  abuse  treatment  program,  or the prior incarceration, immi-
     9  gration detention or immigration removal proceedings,  or  participation
    10  of  a  parent  or  parents  in  a  residential substance abuse treatment
    11  program is a significant factor in why the child has been in foster care
    12  for fifteen of the last twenty-two  months,  provided  that  the  parent
    13  maintains  a  meaningful  role in the child's life based on the criteria
    14  set forth in subparagraph (v) of this paragraph and the agency  has  not
    15  documented  a  reason  why  it  would otherwise be appropriate to file a
    16  petition pursuant to this section.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03634-06-9