Bill Text: NY A07349 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to kinship guardianship of children whose parental rights were surrendered or terminated.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-25 - signed chap.580 [A07349 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A07349-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7349 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- (at request of the Office of Court Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to kinship guardi- anship of children whose parental rights were surrendered or termi- nated The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the social services law, 2 as amended by chapter 607 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. "Child" shall mean a person under the age of twenty-one years whose 5 custody, care and custody, or custody and guardianship have been commit- 6 ted to a social services official prior to such person's eighteenth 7 birthday pursuant to section three hundred fifty-eight-a, three hundred 8 eighty-three-c, three hundred eighty-four, three hundred eighty-four-a 9 or three hundred eighty-four-b of this chapter or article three, seven, 10 ten or 10-C of the family court act. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09710-01-3
