Directs the office of children and family services to examine the impact of orphaned children of mothers with HIV on the social services system; requires that such department report to the legislature with a comprehensive plan in response to its findings.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3479
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 25, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. P. RIVERA, J. RIVERA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. ARROYO, AUBRY, CLARK, COOK, MAGEE, MAYERSOHN, ORTIZ, TOWNS --
read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to direct the office of children and family services to examine
the impact of children orphaned by HIV mothers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The office of children and family services shall study
2 children orphaned as a result of their mothers contracting the human
3 immunodeficiency virus. Such study shall include the projected and actu-
4 al to date impact that such children have had and will have on the
5 social services system.
6 § 2. The office of children and family services shall report by April
7 1, 2012 to the legislature the impact of children orphaned by mothers
8 contracting the human immunodeficiency virus along with recommendations
9 on the responses necessary on issues impacting the social services
10 system, including, but not limited to, the custody, adoption and foster
11 care of such children. Such report shall also present a comprehensive
12 plan to be undertaken by the office of children and family services as a
13 response to the proposed influx of such orphaned children.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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