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

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   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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 A. 1018                             2
 
   (c)  the  full  and true names and places of birth of [his or her] THE
 CHILD'S parents, and [their] SUCH PARENTS' actual residence  if  living,
 or  [their]  SUCH PARENTS' latest known residence, if deceased or where-
 abouts unknown and the name and actual residence  of  any  other  person
 having  custody  of  the  child, as nearly as the same can reasonably be
 ascertained;
   § 2. 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  disabili-
 ty;  and conducting a study on the number of children in foster care who
 have a  developmental  disability,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills
 numbers S. 8679-A and A. 8846-A, are REPEALED.
   §  3.  Section  6 of a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the social
 services law relating to requiring maintained records for certain  chil-
 dren  to  include  whether  they  have  a  developmental disability; and
 conducting a study on the number of children in foster care who  have  a
 developmental  disability,  as  proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
 8679-A and A.  8846-A, is renumbered section 2 and amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  2. This act shall take effect [immediately] ONE YEAR AFTER IT SHALL
 HAVE BECOME A LAW.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 sections  one and two of this act shall take effect on the same date and
 in the same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 relating to  requir-
 ing 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 developmental disability, as proposed
 in legislative bills numbers S. 8679-A and A. 8846-A, takes effect.