Bill Text: NY A07545 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of the office of children and family services, in consultation with the commissioner of education, to develop educational materials regarding resources and programs available to foster care youth who are preparing to attend or are attending institutions of higher education including information on funding opportunities that are available for such youth.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-06 - reported referred to rules [A07545 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07545-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7545--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 25, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. ZINERMAN, DICKENS, BUTTENSCHON, STIRPE, LUNSFORD,
          CONRAD,  CHANDLER-WATERMAN,  BURGOS,  WALLACE, CUNNINGHAM -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Higher Education  --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,
          sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to resources and
          programs available to foster care youth

          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  383-d to read as follows:
     3    § 383-d. Resources and programs available to foster  care  youth.  The
     4  commissioner of the office of children and family services, in consulta-
     5  tion with the commissioner of education, shall develop educational mate-
     6  rials  regarding  resources  and programs available to foster care youth
     7  who are preparing to attend or  are  attending  institutions  of  higher
     8  education including information on funding opportunities that are avail-
     9  able  for such youth. Such materials shall include posters and pamphlets
    10  and shall be made available to institutions of higher education, and  at
    11  a minimum, be posted on the office's website.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04577-02-4