Directs the commissioner of the office of children and family services, in consultation with the commissioner of education, to develop educational materials regarding resources and programs available to foster care youth who are preparing to attend or are attending institutions of higher education including information on funding opportunities that are available for such youth.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7545--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 25, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. ZINERMAN, DICKENS, BUTTENSCHON, STIRPE, LUNSFORD,
CONRAD, CHANDLER-WATERMAN, BURGOS, WALLACE, CUNNINGHAM -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to
the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,
sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to resources and
programs available to foster care youth
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
2 383-d to read as follows:
3 § 383-d. Resources and programs available to foster care youth. The
4 commissioner of the office of children and family services, in consulta-
5 tion with the commissioner of education, shall develop educational mate-
6 rials regarding resources and programs available to foster care youth
7 who are preparing to attend or are attending institutions of higher
8 education including information on funding opportunities that are avail-
9 able for such youth. Such materials shall include posters and pamphlets
10 and shall be made available to institutions of higher education, and at
11 a minimum, be posted on the office's website.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04577-02-4
