STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1498

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the standards of
          payment for care provided foster children

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

     1    Section 1. Section 398-a of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    (7)  Notwithstanding  any  provisions of this section to the contrary,
     4  beginning the first of January next succeeding  the  effective  date  of
     5  this subdivision, the total reimbursement dictated pursuant to the stan-
     6  dards of payment for care provided to foster children shall be increased
     7  by three percent.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






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