Bill Text: NY A04572 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires agencies to provide potential adoptive parents with information concerning state-funded benefits or services available once the foster child is adopted as well as those that expire upon adoption.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-02 - enacting clause stricken [A04572 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04572-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4572
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 3, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. CLARK, WEPRIN, AUBRY, PERRY, MOSLEY, SCARBOROUGH,
         COOK, WRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BUTLER, CAMARA, HIKIND,
         TITONE  --  read  once  and  referred to the Committee on Children and
         Families
       AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  agen-
         cies to provide potential adoptive parents with information concerning
         state-funded  benefits  or  services  received  by a foster child that
         expire upon adoption
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  372-f  of  the social services law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
    3    5. THE OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES SHALL  PROMULGATE  REGU-
    4  LATIONS  WHICH SHALL REQUIRE AUTHORIZED AGENCIES IN THE STATE TO PROVIDE
    5  A FOSTER PARENT, WHO HAS EXPRESSED INTEREST IN ADOPTING A FOSTER  CHILD,
    6  WITH A LIST OF ANY PUBLICLY-FUNDED BENEFITS OR SERVICES THAT SUCH FOSTER
    7  CHILD  WILL  BE  ELIGIBLE  FOR UPON THE ADOPTION OF SUCH FOSTER CHILD AS
    8  WELL AS A LIST OF ANY PUBLICLY-FUNDED BENEFITS  OR  SERVICES  THAT  SUCH
    9  FOSTER  CHILD  IS  CURRENTLY  ELIGIBLE  FOR,  BUT  SHALL EXPIRE UPON THE
   10  ADOPTION OF SUCH FOSTER CHILD. IF A SERVICE  SHALL  EXPIRE,  INFORMATION
   11  SHALL  BE  PROVIDED  ON IF THAT SERVICE IS AVAILABLE IN THE COMMUNITY OR
   12  HOW THAT SERVICE CAN BE OBTAINED  FROM  OTHER  PRIVATE  SOURCES.    SUCH
   13  INFORMATION  SHALL  BE  MADE  AVAILABLE  TO  THE PUBLIC ON SUCH OFFICE'S
   14  WEBSITE.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   16  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08593-01-5