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                                  2585--A
     Cal. No. 265
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 22, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. BRISPORT, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and  when  printed  to  be  committed to the Committee on Children and
   Families -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered  to  first
   and  second  report,  ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and
   delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote  reconsidered,  restored  to
   third  reading,  amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in
   the order of third reading
 
 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:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (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
   (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.