New York Assembly Bill A02726 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2726 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 22, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law and the social services law, in relation to the definition of family for purposes of services provided by voluntary foster care agency health facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2999-gg of the public health law, 2 as added by section 1 of part N of chapter 56 of the laws of 2017, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 1. In order for an authorized agency that is approved by the office of 5 children and family services to care for or board out children, to 6 provide limited health-related services as defined in regulations of the 7 department either directly or indirectly through a contract arrangement, 8 such agency shall obtain, in accordance with a schedule developed by the 9 department in conjunction with the office of children and family 10 services, a license issued by the commissioner in conjunction with the 11 office of children and family services to provide such services. Such 12 schedule shall require that all such authorized agencies operating on 13 January first, two thousand nineteen obtain the license required by this 14 section no later than January first, two thousand nineteen. Such 15 licenses shall be issued in accordance with the standards set forth in 16 this article and the regulations of the department which shall, at a 17 minimum, specify: mandated health services and to whom services may be 18 provided, which shall include, but not be limited to, nursing and behav- 19 ioral health services; general physical environment requirements; mini- 20 mum health and safety procedures; record management requirements; quali- 21 ty management activities; and managed care liaison, fiscal and billing 22 activities for youth in foster care, and their families, which for the 23 purposes of this section shall include both the birth family and the 24 foster family, and other families receiving child welfare services from EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00839-01-5 
 A. 2726 2 1 the authorized agency or the local departments of social services. In 2 determining the criteria for licensure, regulations shall take into 3 account the size and type of each program, and shall be reasonably 4 related to the provision of medical services. Provided however, that a 5 license pursuant to this section shall not be required if such author- 6 ized agency is otherwise authorized to provide the required limited- 7 health-related services to foster children under a license issued pursu- 8 ant to article twenty-eight of this chapter or article thirty-one of the 9 mental hygiene law. For the purposes of this section, the term author- 10 ized agency shall be an authorized agency as defined in paragraph (a) of 11 subdivision ten of section three hundred seventy-one of the social 12 services law. 13 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 10 of section 371 of the social 14 services law, as amended by chapter 107 of the laws of 2007, is amended 15 to read as follows: 16 (a) Any agency, association, corporation, institution, society or 17 other organization which is incorporated or organized under the laws of 18 this state with corporate power or empowered by law to care for, to 19 place out or to board out children, or to care for youth in foster care, 20 and their families, which for the purposes of this paragraph shall 21 include both the birth family and the foster family, and other families 22 receiving child welfare services from the authorized agency or the local 23 departments of social services in the case of authorized agencies 24 licensed pursuant to section twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-gg of the 25 public health law; which actually has its place of business or plant in 26 this state and which is approved, visited, inspected and supervised by 27 the office of children and family services or which shall submit and 28 consent to the approval, visitation, inspection and supervision of such 29 office as to any and all acts in relation to the welfare of children 30 performed or to be performed under this title; provided, however, that 31 on and after June first, two thousand seven, such term shall not include 32 any for-profit corporation or other for-profit entity or organization 33 for the purposes of the operation, management, supervision or ownership 34 of agency boarding homes, group homes, homes including family boarding 35 homes of family free homes, or institutions which are located within 36 this state; 37 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 38 have become a law.