Requires agencies to provide potential adoptive parents with information concerning state-funded benefits or services available once the foster child is adopted as well as those that expire upon adoption.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1772
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- 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 requiring agen-
cies to provide potential adoptive parents with information concerning
state-funded benefits or services received by a foster child that
expire upon adoption
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 372-f of the social services law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
3 5. The office of children and family services shall promulgate regu-
4 lations which shall require authorized agencies in the state to provide
5 a foster parent, who has expressed interest in adopting a foster child,
6 with a list of any publicly-funded benefits or services that such foster
7 child will be eligible for upon the adoption of such foster child as
8 well as a list of any publicly-funded benefits or services that such
9 foster child is currently eligible for, but shall expire upon the
10 adoption of such foster child. If a service shall expire, information
11 shall be provided on if that service is available in the community or
12 how that service can be obtained from other private sources. Such
13 information shall be made available to the public on such office's
14 website.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01982-01-7
