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A00718 Summary:

BILL NOA00718
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORHevesi
 
COSPNSRReyes, Buttenschon, Simon, Lunsford
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §398-a, Soc Serv L
 
Relates to incorporating the cost of living adjustment into subsequent annual maximum state aid base rates for providing care to foster children.
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A00718 Actions:

BILL NOA00718
 
01/08/2025referred to children and families
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A00718 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           718
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Children and Families
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to incorporating
          the cost of living adjustment into subsequent maximum state aid rates

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 398-a of the social services law,
     2  as amended by section 20 of part C of chapter 83 of the laws of 2002, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (2) The office of  children  and  family  services  shall  promulgate,
     5  subject to consultation with appropriate state agencies, the approval of
     6  the  director  of  the budget and certification to the [chairmen] chair-
     7  persons of the senate finance and assembly ways  and  means  committees,
     8  regulations  establishing  standards  of  payment  for  care provided to
     9  foster children when the care of such  children  is  subject  to  public
    10  financial  support,  when such care is provided by relatives, authorized
    11  agencies, family boarding homes, or state agencies.  Such  standards  of
    12  payment  shall include the care required to be provided for foster chil-
    13  dren and the cost of such care. When the office of children  and  family
    14  services has established such standards, reimbursement under subdivision
    15  two  of  section one hundred fifty-three-k of this chapter, for the care
    16  of foster children shall be limited in accordance with  such  standards.
    17  Provided,  however, notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law to
    18  the contrary, when a cost of living adjustment is provided in accordance
    19  with a chapter of the laws of such year,  the  office  of  children  and
    20  family  services  shall  ensure such adjustment is subsequently included
    21  and incorporated as part of the next base payment rate  established  for
    22  providing care to foster children and every subsequent maximum state aid
    23  rate established thereafter. Provided, further, such adjustment shall be
    24  in  addition  to any cost of living adjustment that may be provided in a
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01341-01-5

        A. 718                              2
 
     1  subsequent state fiscal year, as well as any additional trend factors or
     2  staff retention factors that the office of children and family  services
     3  may apply to eligible programs. Nothing herein shall preclude the office
     4  of  children  and family services from applying additional trend factors
     5  or staff retention factors that a program may be eligible for.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
     7  the  amendments to subdivision 2 of section 398-a of the social services
     8  law made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of  such
     9  subdivision and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
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