Bill Text: NY S04476 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the office of children and family services and the New York city administration for children's services to submit annual reports concerning information related to children served by their respective programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S04476 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04476-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4476 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 12, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, KENNEDY, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families AN ACT to amend the executive law and the New York city charter, in relation to directing the office of children and family services and the New York city administration for children's services to submit annual reports concerning information related to children served by their respective programs The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 501 of the executive law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 17 to read as follows: 3 17. To submit a report to the governor, the chair of the senate 4 committee on children and families and the chair of the assembly commit- 5 tee on children and families concerning information related to children 6 served by the office of children and family services. Such report shall 7 be submitted by January thirty-first of each year. Such report shall be 8 available on the office of children and family services website by March 9 thirty-first of each year and shall provide information on the following 10 for the preceding calendar year, or for the nearest measurable twelve 11 month period, including, but not limited to: 12 (a) number of individuals entering assistance; 13 (b) number of individuals exiting assistance; 14 (c) number of transfers between facilities; 15 (d) number of participant runaways; 16 (e) adoption rate; 17 (f) number, location and living arrangements of participants who are 18 aging out of assistance; 19 (g) number, location and living arrangements of participants 20 discharged to kinship care; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04450-01-9S. 4476 2 1 (h) number, location and living arrangements of participants 2 discharged through adoption; 3 (i) number and location of participants discharged due to sentence in 4 jail or prison; 5 (j) number of participants enrolled in an educational program and the 6 type of program; 7 (k) number, location and living arrangements of participants diagnosed 8 with mental health issues and/or placed in facilities for mental health, 9 substance abuse or any other treatment; and 10 (l) number of participants with juvenile justice involvement and the 11 type of involvement. 12 § 2. Subdivision f of section 618 of the New York city charter, as 13 added by local law number 61 of the city of New York for the year 2010, 14 is amended and a new subdivision g is added to read as follows: 15 f. plan, develop, conduct and supervise programs, including diversion 16 and aftercare for previously detained juveniles, for the prevention of 17 juvenile delinquency and juvenile crime and for youths arrested, 18 charged, adjudicated or convicted of having committed delinquent or 19 criminal acts, and conduct research and demonstration projects related 20 thereto[.]; 21 g. submit a report to the governor, the chair of the senate committee 22 on children and families and the chair of the assembly committee on 23 children and families concerning information related to children served 24 by the New York city administration for children's services. Such report 25 shall be submitted by January thirty-first of each year. Such report 26 shall be available on the New York city administration for children's 27 services website by March thirty-first of each year and shall provide 28 information on the following for the preceding calendar year, or for the 29 nearest measurable twelve month period, including, but not limited to: 30 (i) number of individuals entering assistance; 31 (ii) number of individuals exiting assistance; 32 (iii) number of transfers between facilities; 33 (iv) number of participant runaways; 34 (v) adoption rate; 35 (vi) number, location and living arrangements of participants who are 36 aging out of assistance; 37 (vii) number, location and living arrangements of participants 38 discharged to kinship care; 39 (viii) number, location and living arrangements of participants 40 discharged through adoption; 41 (ix) number and location of participants discharged due to sentence in 42 jail or prison; 43 (x) number of participants enrolled in an educational program and the 44 type of program; 45 (xi) number, location and living arrangements of participants diag- 46 nosed with mental health issues or placed in facilities for mental 47 health, substance abuse or any other treatment; and 48 (xii) number of participants with juvenile justice involvement and the 49 type of involvement. 50 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
