STATE OF NEW YORK
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1365
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 12, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to post-adoption
services
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
2 372-i to read as follows:
3 § 372-i. Post adoption services. 1. The office of children and family
4 services shall collect data and information on the availability of post-
5 adoption services around the state. The office shall work with local
6 social services districts, authorized agencies, and not-for-profit agen-
7 cies with experience providing post-adoption services to gather, to the
8 greatest extent possible, non-identifying information by county includ-
9 ing but not limited to:
10 a. the number of children entering foster care who had previously been
11 adopted;
12 b. the number of families who received post-adoption services;
13 c. the number of children in paragraph a of this subdivision who had
14 received post-adoption services and what type of services were rendered;
15 d. the number of denied requests for services, and the reason for such
16 denials; and
17 e. the type of service for which requests were denied.
18 2. The office of children and family services shall submit a report to
19 the speaker of the assembly, the temporary president of the senate, the
20 minority leader of the assembly and the minority leader of the senate no
21 later than September first of each year with the data and information
22 required by subdivision one of this section for the preceding year. The
23 office shall include an analysis of the availability of post-adoption
24 services statewide and regionally, the extent to which the provisions of
25 such services prevents the disruption of adoptions and recommendations
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 for specific services to promote the permanency of adoptive placements.
2 The office shall indicate the extent to which the information collected
3 reflects the total population described in subdivision one of this
4 section, and identify any impediments to collecting such information.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect the thirty-first of August next
6 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law; provided,
7 however, that effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
8 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
9 this act on its effective date is authorized and directed to be made and
10 completed on or before such effective date.
