Senate Bill S5031

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Limits the number of cases a foster care worker may have under his or her supervision at any one time to 16 cases

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Children And Families Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S5031 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §409-g, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6118
2021-2022: S2587

2023-S5031 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the number of cases a foster care worker may have under his or her supervision at any one time to 16 cases.

2023-S5031 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5031 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5031
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 22, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. BRISPORT, SALAZAR -- 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  limitations  on
   the number of cases handled by child welfare personnel

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The section heading of section 409-g of the social services
 law, as added by chapter 611 of the laws of 1979, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   Training of child welfare personnel; LIMITATION ON CASELOADS.
   §  2.  Section 409-g of the social services law is amended by adding a
 new closing paragraph to read as follows:
   NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, THE NUMBER OF CASES  UNDER
 THE  SUPERVISION  OF  ANY FOSTER CARE WORKER SHALL NOT EXCEED SIXTEEN AT
 ANY ONE TIME.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07612-01-3

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