Bill Text: NY S02585 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires OCFS to provide information relating to post adoption services on its website in certain languages for those with limited English proficiency; requires authorized agencies to advise foster parents of the availability of such information in such languages.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-12-09 - SIGNED CHAP.659 [S02585 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S02585-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2585--A Cal. No. 265 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 22, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BRISPORT, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to post adoption services information The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 372-h of the social services law, as added by 2 section 1 of part T of chapter 56 of the laws of 2014, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 § 372-h. Reporting on post adoption services. 1. The office of chil- 5 dren and family services shall place information on its website in 6 English, French, Polish, and the ten most common non-English languages 7 spoken by individuals with limited English proficiency in the state of 8 New York, based on United States census data regarding post adoption 9 services funded by the office. The office shall work with social 10 services districts to place information, to the extent that it is avail- 11 able, on each social services district website in English, French, 12 Polish, and the ten most common non-English languages spoken by individ- 13 uals with limited English proficiency in the state of New York, based on 14 United States census data regarding post adoption services funded by the 15 social services district. Authorized agencies shall notify a foster 16 parent, who has expressed interest in adopting a foster child, of such 17 websites listing potentially eligible services for a foster child, upon 18 the adoption of such foster child. 19 2. The office of children and family services shall collect and 20 compile, by social services district: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08757-03-1S. 2585--A 2 1 (a) the following information on post adoption services funded by the 2 office: 3 (i) the number of children and families served; and 4 (ii) the type of services provided; and 5 (b) the number of families receiving preventive services where post 6 adoption services was identified as a necessary and appropriate service 7 as part of the family assessment service plan held pursuant to section 8 four hundred nine-e of this article and the status of such services. 9 3. The office of children and family services shall compile, to the 10 extent that such information is available electronically through the 11 state automated child welfare information system, the following non- 12 identifying information by social services district: 13 (a) the number of children entering foster care that had previously 14 been adopted; 15 (b) the number of families receiving preventive services where at 16 least one child in the household had previously been adopted; and 17 (c) for the children and families identified in paragraphs (a) and (b) 18 of this subdivision, the types of services, including post adoption 19 services, identified as necessary and appropriate for the child or the 20 members of the child's family as part of the family assessment service 21 plan held pursuant to section four hundred nine-e of this article and 22 the status of such services. 23 4. (a) The office of children and family services shall submit, and 24 publish on its website, an annual report to the speaker of the assembly, 25 the temporary president of the senate and the chairpersons of the senate 26 and assembly children and families committees starting no later than 27 September first, two thousand fifteen. Such report shall include data 28 and information required by subdivision two of this section for the 29 preceding year, to the extent that such information is available, and 30 any other information the office of children and family services deems 31 appropriate. The office of children and family services shall indicate 32 the extent to which the information collected reflects the total popu- 33 lation described in subdivision two of this section, and identify any 34 impediments to collecting such information. 35 (b) Beginning September first, two thousand seventeen, the annual 36 report required by paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall be expanded 37 to include data and information required by subdivision three of this 38 section for the preceding year, to the extent that such information is 39 available, and any other information the office of children and family 40 services deems appropriate. 41 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 42 have become a law.
