Assembly Bill A1018

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Eliminates the requirement of conducting a study on the number of children in foster care who have a disability

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A1018 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services
Laws Affected:
Amd §372, Soc Serv L; rpld §§2 - 5, ren §6 to be §2, amd §2, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.8679-A & A.8846-A)

2025-A1018 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Eliminates the requirement of conducting a study on the number of children in foster care who have a disability; makes technical changes to certain provisions of law.

2025-A1018 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1018
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Children and Families
 
 AN  ACT  amend  the social services law, in relation to making technical
   changes to certain provisions of such law; to repeal sections 2, 3,  4
   and  5  of  a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the social services
   law relating to requiring maintained records for certain  children  to
   include whether they have a developmental disability; and conducting a
   study  on  the  number  of children in foster care who have a develop-
   mental disability; as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.  8679-A
   and  A.  8846-A,  in  relation  to conducting a study to determine the
   number of children in foster care and who have been diagnosed  with  a
   developmental  disability;  and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2024
   amending the social services  law  relating  to  requiring  maintained
   records  for  certain children to include whether they have a develop-
   mental disability; and conducting a study on the number of children in
   foster care who have a developmental disability, as proposed in legis-
   lative bills numbers S. 8679-A and  A.  8846-A,  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.  Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 1 of section 372  of
 the  social  services  law,  as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2024
 amending the social services  law  relating  to  requiring    maintained
 records  for  certain  children  to include whether they have a develop-
 mental disability; and conducting a study on the number of  children  in
 foster care who have a developmental disability, as proposed in legisla-
 tive  bills  numbers  S.  8679-A  and  A. 8846-A, are amended to read as
 follows:
   (b) [his or her] THE CHILD'S sex and  date  and  place  of  birth,  if
 ascertainable, or [his or her] THE CHILD'S apparent age;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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