Provides that the office of children and family services shall undertake a study on the feasibility of implementing a statewide foster care passport program; establishes pilot programs relating thereto.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5627
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 13, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. MOLINARO, RAIA, WALKER, BARCLAY, ERRIGO, DUPREY
-- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ALFANO, BACALLES, BARRA, BUTLER,
CONTE, CROUCH, FINCH, GIGLIO, HAWLEY, KOLB, P. LOPEZ, MILLER, OAKS,
O'MARA, QUINN, REILICH, SALADINO, SAYWARD, SCOZZAFAVA, TEDISCO, THIELE
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT providing for the office of children and family services to
undertake a study on the feasibility of implementing a statewide
foster care passport program and to establish pilot programs relating
thereto
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 undertake
2 a study on the feasibility of implementing a statewide foster child
3 passport program.
4 § 2. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
5 during the undertaking of such study, the office of children and family
6 services shall create pilot programs in various regions across the state
7 and then monitor the progress of such pilot programs in order to assess
8 their effectiveness.
9 2. Such pilot programs shall issue a foster child passport to foster
10 children when they are placed in foster care. The foster child passport
11 shall:
12 (a) maintain a record of medical care provided to a foster child;
13 (b) aid a medical professional in giving appropriate care to a foster
14 child; and
15 (c) allow foster parents to authorize routine and emergency medical
16 care to a foster child.
17 3. The foster child passport shall remain with a foster child until he
18 or she is:
19 (a) returned to his or her natural parents;
20 (b) adopted; or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (c) placed in another permanent plan.
2 Upon the occurrence of one of the paragraphs of this subdivision, the
3 foster child passport shall be returned to the local social services
4 district.
5 § 3. The office of children and family services shall submit a report
6 to the governor and the state legislature within one year of the effec-
7 tive date of this act that shall:
8 (a) detail the cost and effectiveness of such a program; and
9 (b) make recommendations and policy suggestions as to the expansion
10 and continuance of such a program.
11 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
12 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
13 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
14 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
15 authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such
16 effective date.
