Bill Text: NY S05031 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Limits the number of cases a foster care worker may have under his or her supervision at any one time to 16 cases.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S05031 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S05031-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5031 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 22, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BRISPORT, SALAZAR -- 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 limitations on the number of cases handled by child welfare personnel The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The section heading of section 409-g of the social services 2 law, as added by chapter 611 of the laws of 1979, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 Training of child welfare personnel; limitation on caseloads. 5 § 2. Section 409-g of the social services law is amended by adding a 6 new closing paragraph to read as follows: 7 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the number of cases under 8 the supervision of any foster care worker shall not exceed sixteen at 9 any one time. 10 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 11 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07612-01-3
