Bill Text: NY S02650 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a caregiver support program for grandparents and other older adult relative caregivers who are providing primary care for children aged 18 and under either formally or informally to provide technical assistance, counseling and other resources.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO AGING [S02650 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02650-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2650

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging

        AN ACT to amend the elder law, in  relation  to  authorizing  the  state
          office  for  the  aging  to  implement a caregiver support program for
          grandparents and other older relatives who are caring for children

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

     1    Section  1.  The  elder  law is amended by adding a new section 226 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 226. Grandparent caregiver support program. 1. The director is here-
     4  by authorized and directed, to the extent appropriations  are  available
     5  therefor,  to  develop  and  establish  a  grandparent caregiver support
     6  program for the purpose of providing support services to grandparents or
     7  other older adult relative caregivers who are providing primary care for
     8  a child.
     9    2. Definitions. For the purposes of this section:
    10    (a) "grandparent or other older adult relative caregivers" shall  mean
    11  a  grandparent or stepgrandparent of a child or a relative of a child by
    12  blood or marriage who:
    13    (i) is sixty years of age or older, and
    14    (ii) lives with the child, and
    15    (iii) provides primary care for the child because  the  biological  or
    16  adoptive  parents  are unwilling or unable to serve as the primary care-
    17  giver of the child, and
    18    (iv) is the custodian or guardian of the  child,  or  is  raising  the
    19  child informally.
    20    (b)  "child"  shall mean an individual who is eighteen years of age or
    21  younger.
    22    3. The grandparent caregiver support program may include, but  is  not
    23  limited to:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04328-01-3
        S. 2650                             2

     1    (a)  the  creation  of grandparent caregiver resource centers by local
     2  offices for the aging in New York state,
     3    (b)  technical assistance and training for grandparent and other older
     4  adult relative caregivers support groups,
     5    (c) information and referral for grandparent  and  other  older  adult
     6  relative caregivers,
     7    (d) assistance to grandparents and other older adult relative caregiv-
     8  ers in gaining access to available services,
     9    (e) counseling to grandparents and other older adult relative caregiv-
    10  ers  in making decisions and solving problems relating to their caregiv-
    11  ing roles, and
    12    (f) the publication and dissemination of printed material  related  to
    13  services  available to grandparents and other older adult relative care-
    14  givers.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.