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                                  6665--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 24, 2021
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Children  and  Families  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to post adoption
   services information

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  372-h  of  the  social services law, as added by
 section 1 of part T of chapter 56 of the laws of  2014,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   §  372-h.  Reporting on post adoption services. 1. The office of chil-
 dren and family services shall  place  information  on  its  website  IN
 ENGLISH,  FRENCH,  POLISH, AND THE TEN MOST COMMON NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGES
 SPOKEN BY INDIVIDUALS WITH LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY IN THE  STATE  OF
 NEW  YORK,  BASED  ON  UNITED STATES CENSUS DATA regarding post adoption
 services funded by  the  office.  The  office  shall  work  with  social
 services districts to place information, to the extent that it is avail-
 able,  on  each  social  services  district  website IN ENGLISH, FRENCH,
 POLISH, AND THE TEN MOST COMMON NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY INDIVID-
 UALS WITH LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, BASED ON
 UNITED STATES CENSUS DATA regarding post adoption services funded by the
 social services district.   AUTHORIZED AGENCIES SHALL  NOTIFY  A  FOSTER
 PARENT,  WHO  HAS EXPRESSED INTEREST IN ADOPTING A FOSTER CHILD, OF SUCH
 WEBSITES LISTING POTENTIALLY ELIGIBLE SERVICES FOR A FOSTER CHILD,  UPON
 THE ADOPTION OF SUCH FOSTER CHILD.
   2.  The  office  of  children  and  family  services shall collect and
 compile, by social services district:
   (a) the following information on post adoption services funded by  the
 office:
   (i) the number of children and families served; and
   (ii) the type of services provided; and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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   (b)  the  number  of families receiving preventive services where post
 adoption services was identified as a necessary and appropriate  service
 as  part  of the family assessment service plan held pursuant to section
 four hundred nine-e of this article and the status of such services.
   3.  The  office  of children and family services shall compile, to the
 extent that such information is  available  electronically  through  the
 state  automated  child  welfare  information system, the following non-
 identifying information by social services district:
   (a) the number of children entering foster care  that  had  previously
 been adopted;
   (b)  the  number  of  families  receiving preventive services where at
 least one child in the household had previously been adopted; and
   (c) for the children and families identified in paragraphs (a) and (b)
 of this subdivision, the types  of  services,  including  post  adoption
 services,  identified  as necessary and appropriate for the child or the
 members of the child's family as part of the family  assessment  service
 plan  held  pursuant  to section four hundred nine-e of this article and
 the status of such services.
   4. (a) The office of children and family services  shall  submit,  AND
 PUBLISH ON ITS WEBSITE, an annual report to the speaker of the assembly,
 the temporary president of the senate and the chairpersons of the senate
 and  assembly  children  and  families committees starting no later than
 September first, two thousand fifteen. Such report  shall  include  data
 and  information  required  by  subdivision  two of this section for the
 preceding year, to the extent that such information  is  available,  and
 any  other  information the office of children and family services deems
 appropriate. The office of children and family services  shall  indicate
 the  extent  to which the information collected reflects the total popu-
 lation described in subdivision two of this section,  and  identify  any
 impediments to collecting such information.
   (b)  Beginning  September  first,  two  thousand seventeen, the annual
 report required by paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall  be  expanded
 to  include  data  and information required by subdivision three of this
 section for the preceding year, to the extent that such  information  is
 available,  and  any other information the office of children and family
 services deems appropriate.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.