Bill Text: NY A00924 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for case workers to apply for education and training vouchers for children in foster care.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to children and families [A00924 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00924-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           924

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the social services law and the administrative  code  of
          the  city  of  New  York,  in relation to allowing for case workers to
          apply for education and training vouchers for children in foster care

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

     1    Section 1. Section 397 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5.  As  to  children  in foster care, apply for education and training
     4  vouchers pursuant to paragraph i of section 677  of  the  United  States
     5  code for the child.
     6    §  2.  Section  21-902.1 of the administrative code of the city of New
     7  York is amended by adding a new subdivision f to read as follows:
     8    f. Case planners and case workers may apply for education and training
     9  vouchers for a child who is in foster care.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01052-01-3