Bill Text: NY S08421 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the office of children and family services to collect data on child welfare preventive services by local social services district and compile an annual report to be submitted to the governor and legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-12-15 - approval memo.36 [S08421 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8421

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 26, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- 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  the  collection
          and reporting of data on child welfare preventive services

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

     1    Section 1. Section 409-a of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     3    11.  (a)  The office of children and family services shall collect the
     4  following data, regarding preventive services as defined in section four
     5  hundred nine of this title,  and  compile  such  data  by  local  social
     6  services district on an annual basis:
     7    (i)  the  total  number  of children and families receiving preventive
     8  services at the end of each month;
     9    (ii) the total annual number of  unduplicated  children  and  families
    10  receiving  preventive  services  including how many new preventive cases
    11  were opened during the preceding calendar year and to the extent practi-
    12  cable, the referral source for each new case;
    13    (iii) the average length of time preventive services were provided for
    14  each child or family during the preceding calendar year, as well  as  an
    15  indication of whether such case had been closed during such year;
    16    (iv)  a descriptive list of the services and their utilization rate in
    17  each local social services district  which  utilize  preventive  service
    18  funding  as  allowable  under  section one hundred fifty-three-k of this
    19  chapter;
    20    (v) a descriptive list, and their utilization rate if practicable,  of
    21  other  preventive  services provided by a local social services district
    22  that does not utilize preventive service funding pursuant to section one
    23  hundred fifty-three-k of this chapter;
    24    (vi) the total number of children who entered foster care  during  the
    25  preceding  calendar  year  who  had  received preventive services at any
    26  point during the twelve-months prior to their entry  into  foster  care;
    27  and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (vii)  any  other  information the commissioner deems pertinent to the
     2  provision of preventive services.
     3    (b)  The office of children and family services shall submit an annual
     4  report to the governor, the speaker of the assembly, the temporary pres-
     5  ident of the senate, the chairpersons of the assembly and  senate  chil-
     6  dren  and  families committees, the chairperson of the assembly ways and
     7  means committee and chairperson of the senate finance committee no later
     8  than September first, two thousand twenty-one and each year  thereafter.
     9  Such report shall include data and information required by paragraph (a)
    10  of  this subdivision for the preceding calendar year, to the extent such
    11  information is available. When practicable, such  information  shall  be
    12  disaggregated by age, sex, race and ethnicity.
    13    (c)  The  initial report shall include the data described in paragraph
    14  (a) of this subdivision from the preceding two calendar years.
    15    (d) For purposes of this section, "other  preventive  services"  shall
    16  include primary preventive services which may be funded through communi-
    17  ty  optional  preventive  services funding, home visiting funds or other
    18  federal, state, or local funds.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.