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A04557 Summary:

BILL NOA04557
 
SAME ASSAME AS S03988
 
SPONSORCunningham
 
COSPNSRLunsford, Burdick
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §405, Soc Serv L
 
Relates to written notification to schools of a student's placement in foster care.
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A04557 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4557
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 4, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. CUNNINGHAM, LUNSFORD, BURDICK -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Children and Families
 
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to written  notifi-
          cation to schools of a student's placement in foster care
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new  section
     2  405 to read as follows:
     3    §  405. Notification to schools of foster care placement. 1.  Whenever
     4  a child placed in foster family care or an agency boarding home or group
     5  home who is a public charge in a social services district is admitted to
     6  a school, an official within that social services district or  an  offi-
     7  cial  of  the authorized agency acting on the child's behalf in boarding
     8  out such child, shall send written  notification  to  the  principal  or
     9  principal's  designee  of the school in which the child is enrolled that
    10  said child is in foster family care or an agency boarding home or  group
    11  home. Such notification must be received by the principal or principal's
    12  designee  no  later  than  the  first  day  during which the child is in
    13  attendance at school and must include the following:
    14    (a) the name of such child;
    15    (b) the date of birth of such child, if ascertainable, or such child's
    16  apparent age;
    17    (c) the names and address of the foster parents or, where  applicable,
    18  the name of the child care agency and the address of the agency boarding
    19  home or group home;
    20    (d)  the  name and location of the school district in which such child
    21  resided at the time such child became a public charge in foster care;
    22    (e) the name and location of the school last attended  by  such  child
    23  prior to such child's current admission; and
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04025-01-5

        A. 4557                             2
 
     1    (f)  the  name  and location of the local social services commissioner
     2  caring for such child, and the name and location of any authorized agen-
     3  cy acting on such child's behalf.
     4    2.  Any  information  gathered or disseminated about a child placed in
     5  foster family care or an agency boarding home or group home pursuant  to
     6  this  section shall be treated in a confidential manner and shall not be
     7  distributed,  made  available  or  disclosed  by  the  social   services
     8  district, authorized agency or school other than as specifically permit-
     9  ted by subdivision one of this section.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law.
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