STATE OF NEW YORK
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7448
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 26, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. BRISPORT -- (at request of the Office of Court Admin-
istration) -- 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 kinship guardi-
anship of children whose parental rights were surrendered or termi-
nated
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the social services law,
2 as amended by chapter 607 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. "Child" shall mean a person under the age of twenty-one years whose
5 custody, care and custody, or custody and guardianship have been commit-
6 ted to a social services official prior to such person's eighteenth
7 birthday pursuant to section three hundred fifty-eight-a, three hundred
8 eighty-three-c, three hundred eighty-four, three hundred eighty-four-a
9 or three hundred eighty-four-b of this chapter or article three, seven,
10 ten or 10-C of the family court act.
11 § 2. 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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