Bill Text: NY S05031 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Limits the number of cases a foster care worker may have under his or her supervision at any one time to 16 cases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S05031 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05031-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5031

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 22, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. BRISPORT, SALAZAR -- 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  limitations  on
          the number of cases handled by child welfare personnel

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

     1    Section 1. The section heading of section 409-g of the social services
     2  law, as added by chapter 611 of the laws of 1979, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    Training of child welfare personnel; limitation on caseloads.
     5    §  2.  Section 409-g of the social services law is amended by adding a
     6  new closing paragraph to read as follows:
     7    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the number of cases  under
     8  the  supervision  of  any foster care worker shall not exceed sixteen at
     9  any one time.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    11  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07612-01-3
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