File #: Int 1719-2019    Version: Name: Reporting on youth in foster care.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on General Welfare
On agenda: 9/25/2019
Enactment date: 11/21/2021 Law number: 2021/133
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on youth in foster care
Sponsors: Margaret S. Chin, Stephen T. Levin, Vanessa L. Gibson, Diana I. Ayala, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Brad S. Lander, Justin L. Brannan, Antonio Reynoso, Adrienne E. Adams, Darma V. Diaz, Helen K. Rosenthal, Karen Koslowitz, Ben Kallos, Farah N. Louis, Eric Dinowitz, Inez D. Barron
Council Member Sponsors: 16
Summary: This bill would require the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) to submit to the Council no later than July 31, 2022, and annually thereafter, information on how long it takes for the families of children in ACS custody to visit their child after a placement or transfer, as well as the number of children that are given placements in boroughs other than those which they are from, disaggregated by borough.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1719-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1719, 3. Int. No. 1719, 4. September 25, 2019 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-25-19, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 25, 2019, 7. Committee Report 10/31/19, 8. Hearing Testimony 10/31/19, 9. Hearing Transcript 10/31/19, 10. Proposed Int. No 1719-A - 10/14/21, 11. Committee Report 10/21/21, 12. Hearing Transcript 10/21/21, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. October 21, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-21-21, 16. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 21, 2021, 17. Int. No. 1719-A (FINAL), 18. Fiscal Impact Statement, 19. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 20. Local Law 133
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
11/22/2021AMargaret S. Chin City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/21/2021AMargaret S. Chin Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021AMargaret S. Chin City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021AMargaret S. Chin City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021*Margaret S. Chin Committee on General Welfare Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021*Margaret S. Chin Committee on General Welfare Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021*Margaret S. Chin Committee on General Welfare Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021AMargaret S. Chin Committee on General Welfare Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
10/31/2019*Margaret S. Chin Committee on General Welfare Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/31/2019*Margaret S. Chin Committee on General Welfare Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/25/2019*Margaret S. Chin City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/25/2019*Margaret S. Chin City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1719-A

 

By Council Members Chin, Levin, Gibson, Ayala, Ampry-Samuel, Lander, Brannan, Reynoso, Adams, D. Diaz, Rosenthal, Koslowitz, Kallos, Louis, Dinowitz and Barron

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on youth in foster care

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 21-902 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law 20 of 2006, is amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:

4. Contact with foster care youth. Beginning with the report due July 31, 2022, the report shall include the following information regarding contact between a foster care youth, as defined by section 21-902.1, and such youth’s parent or caretaker:

                     a. The percent of foster care youth who had their first in-person visit within 2 days; 7 days; and 14 days from when the foster care youth were initially placed in ACS custody; and

                     b. The percentage of foster care youth entering foster care in the quarter who received an ACS placement in a borough other than that which they are from, disaggregated by borough.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

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