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                                   1261
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 8, 2021
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 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Children and Families
 
 AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to certain data to
   be reported regarding child welfare preventive services; and to  amend
   a  chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the social services law relat-
   ing to  reporting  data  on  child  welfare  preventive  services,  as
   proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  S.  8421-A and A. 10513, in
   relation to the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 409-a of the social services law,
 as  added  by a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the social services
 law relating to reporting data on child welfare preventive services,  as
 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8421-A and A. 10513, is amended
 to read as follows:
   11.  (a)  The office of children and family services shall collect the
 following data regarding preventive services, as defined in section four
 hundred nine of this title, and compile an annual report on such data by
 local social services district:
   (i) the total number of children and families ADMITTED TO OR receiving
 A NEW SERVICE AUTHORIZATION FOR preventive services [at the end of  each
 month] DURING THE PRECEDING CALENDAR YEAR;
   (ii)  the  total  annual  number of unduplicated children and families
 receiving ONE OR MORE DAYS OF preventive services including how many new
 preventive cases were opened during the preceding calendar year  and  to
 the  extent  [practicable] SUCH INFORMATION IS KNOWN AND AVAILABLE AFTER
 MAKING ALL DILIGENT EFFORTS, the referral source for each new case;
   (iii) the [average length of time preventive  services  were  provided
 for  each  child  or family] TOTAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES WHOSE
 PREVENTIVE SERVICES AUTHORIZATION WAS CLOSED during the preceding calen-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 dar year[, as well as an indication of whether such case had been closed
 during such year];
   (iv) a descriptive list of the services and their utilization rate, IF
 PRACTICABLE,  in  each  local  social  services  district  which utilize
 preventive service  funding  as  allowable  under  section  one  hundred
 fifty-three-k of this chapter;
   (v)  a descriptive list[,] and their utilization rate, if practicable,
 of other  preventive  services  provided  by  a  local  social  services
 district  that  does  not utilize preventive service funding pursuant to
 section one hundred fifty-three-k of this chapter. For purposes of  this
 paragraph, other preventive services shall include BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO
 primary  preventive  services  which  may  be  funded  through community
 optional preventive services funding[,] OR home visiting funds [or other
 federal, state or local funds];
   (vi) the total number of children who entered foster care  during  the
 preceding  calendar  year  who  had  received preventive services at any
 point during the twelve-months prior to their entry  into  foster  care;
 and
   (vii)  any  other  information  the commissioner may deem necessary to
 include in said report.
   (b) The office of children  and  family  services  shall  submit  such
 report to the governor, the speaker of the assembly, the temporary pres-
 ident  of  the senate, the chairpersons of the assembly and senate chil-
 dren and families committees, the chairperson of the assembly  ways  and
 means  committee  and  the  chairperson  of the senate finance committee
 starting no later than September first, two  thousand  twenty-one.  Such
 report  shall  include data and information required by paragraph (a) of
 this subdivision for the preceding calendar year,  to  the  extent  such
 information  is  available.  When practicable, such information shall be
 disaggregated by age, sex, race and ethnicity.
   (c) The initial report shall include the aforementioned data from  the
 preceding two calendar years.
   §  2.  Section  2 of a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the social
 services law relating to reporting  data  on  child  welfare  preventive
 services,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills numbers S. 8421-A and A.
 10513, is amended to read as follows:
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately AND SHALL  EXPIRE  AND  BE
 DEEMED REPEALED SEPTEMBER 1, 2024.
   §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately; provided however that
 section one of this act shall take effect on the same date  and  in  the
 same  manner  as  a  chapter  of  the  laws  of 2020 amending the social
 services law relating to reporting  data  on  child  welfare  preventive
 services,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills numbers S. 8421-A and A.
 10513, takes effect.