Bill Text: NY S02714 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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]

Download: New_York-2019-S02714-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2714
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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  services  for
          relative and non-relative kinship caregivers
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 392 of the social services law, as added by section
     2  3 of part F of chapter 58 of the  laws  of  2010,  is  amended  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    §  392.  Services for relative and non-relative kinship caregivers. 1.
     5  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, when a local
     6  social services district is in contact with a relative  or  non-relative
     7  kinship  caregiver  or a suitable person who the district has approached
     8  about being a kinship caregiver, [local social services districts]  such
     9  district shall [make] provide written information as described in subdi-
    10  vision  two  of  this section to such caregivers or prospective suitable
    11  persons. Such information shall  also  be  made  available  through  the
    12  [district's]  website  [or]  of  both the office and the district and by
    13  other appropriate means [information for]  in  a  manner  accessible  to
    14  relatives  and  non-relatives  caring for children outside of the foster
    15  care system.
    16    2. Such information shall include but not [necessarily] be limited to:
    17    [1.] a. information relating to child only grants, including  but  not
    18  limited to, how to apply for child only grants; [and]
    19    b.  information  about how to become a kinship foster parent and other
    20  options for care; and
    21    [2.] c. information on how to contact the department of family assist-
    22  ance [or] kinship programs and any resources funded through or operating
    23  in the local [department of] social services [funded resources] district
    24  for relative and non-relative kinship caregivers, including  those  that
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02788-01-9
        S. 2714                             2
     1  provide  supportive  services  for all relative and non-relative kinship
     2  caregivers in the district.
     3    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.