Bill Title: Provides that when a local social services district is in contact with a relative or non-relative kinship caregiver or a suitable person who the district has approached about being a kinship caregiver, such district shall provide written information to such caregivers or prospective suitable persons; further provides that such information shall include, but not be limited to, information relating to child only grants; information about how to become a kinship foster parent and other options for care; and information on how to contact the department of family assistance kinship programs and any resources funded through or operating in the local social services district for relative and non-relative kinship caregivers, including those that provide supportive services for all relative and non-relative kinship caregivers in the district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-23 - SIGNED CHAP.399 [S02714 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Contact	Phone	District	Sponsorship	State Profile	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Diane Savino [D]	Primary	Inactive	Inactive	SD-023	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Roxanne Persaud [D]	Cosponsor	Email	518-455-2788	SD-019	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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