Bill Text: NY S07523 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the office of children and family services to promulgate regulations establishing workload standards for child protective service employees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S07523 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S07523-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7523 I N S E N A T E May 15, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to directing the office of children and family services to establish workload standards for child protective services workers THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 20-a of the social services law, as added by chap- 2 ter 107 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows: 3 S 20-a. Local personnel; limitations on department's power. Notwith- 4 standing any inconsistent provision of this chapter, the board, the 5 commissioner or the department, acting singly or in unison, shall not 6 have the power, directly or indirectly to prescribe the number of 7 persons to be employed in any social services district providing the 8 district complies with the minimum federal standards relating thereto; 9 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY 10 TO THE REGULATIONS OF THE OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES ESTAB- 11 LISHING WORKLOAD STANDARDS FOR CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES WORKERS PROMUL- 12 GATED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (C) OF SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION FOUR 13 HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF THIS CHAPTER. 14 S 2. Subdivision 4 of section 421 of the social services law is 15 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: 16 (C) PROMULGATE REGULATIONS RELATING TO WORKLOAD STANDARDS FOR CHILD 17 PROTECTIVE SERVICES, WHICH SHALL BE NO MORE THAN FIFTEEN ACTIVE CASES 18 PER MONTH PER FULL TIME CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES WORKER. NOTHING IN 19 THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO FORBID THE OFFICE FROM PROMULGATING 20 REGULATIONS THAT REQUIRE AN AVERAGE WORKLOAD STANDARD OF LESS THAN 21 FIFTEEN ACTIVE CASES PER MONTH PER FULL TIME CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES 22 WORKER. 23 S 3. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 423 of the social 24 services law, as amended by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is amended 25 to read as follows: 26 (c) The child protective service shall have a sufficient staff, 27 SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (C) OF SUBDIVISION FOUR OF EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15145-01-4 S. 7523 2 1 SECTION FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF THIS TITLE, of sufficient qualifica- 2 tions to fulfill the purposes of this title and be organized in such a 3 way as to maximize the continuity of responsibility, care and service of 4 individual workers toward individual children and families. A social 5 services district shall have flexibility in assigning staff to the child 6 protective service provided that each staff assigned to such service has 7 the staff qualifications and has received the training required by the 8 department regulations promulgated pursuant to subdivisions four and 9 five of section four hundred twenty-one of this title. 10 S 4. This act shall take effect on the seven hundred thirtieth day 11 after it shall have become a law.