New York S 2396: Creates caseload standards for adult protective services workers

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S02396 Summary:

BILL NOS02396 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04035

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SPONSORPERSAUD

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COSPNSRCOMRIE, JACKSON

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§20-a, 421 & 17, add §473-f, Soc Serv L

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Creates caseload standards for adult protective services workers such that such workers have no more than thirty cases at any time.

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BILL NOS02396 

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01/17/2025REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

05/06/20251ST REPORT CAL.954

05/07/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/08/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2396

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 17, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to creating case-
 load standards for adult protective services workers

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 20-a of the social services law, as added by chap-
 2 ter 107 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 20-a. Local personnel; limitations on department's power. Notwith-
 4 standing any inconsistent provision of this chapter, the board, the
 5 commissioner or the department, acting singly or in unison, shall not
 6 have the power, directly or indirectly to prescribe the number of
 7 persons to be employed in any social services district providing the
 8 district complies with the minimum federal standards relating thereto;
 9 provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply
 10 to the regulations of the office of children and family services estab-
 11 lishing caseload standards for adult protective services workers promul-
 12 gated pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision nine of section four
 13 hundred twenty-one of this chapter.
 14 § 2. Section 421 of the social services law is amended by adding a new
 15 subdivision 9 to read as follows:
 16 9. promulgate regulations, in consultation with local social services
 17 districts, relating to caseload standards for adult protective services
 18 workers. Such standards shall include, but not be limited to:
 19 (a) limitations on the number of investigations which can be assigned
 20 to adult protective services workers, provided however, to the extent
 21 possible and within amounts appropriated therefor, a full time equiv-
 22 alent adult protective services worker shall not be assigned:
 23 (i) a caseload of more than twenty initial investigations at any given
 24 time; or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06240-01-5

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 1 (ii) a caseload of more than thirty ongoing cases at any given time;
 2 or
 3 (iii) a total caseload of more than thirty cases.
 4 (b) guidance as it relates to how such investigations are assigned,
 5 taking into consideration the adult protective services worker's current
 6 caseload, as well as the complexity of the particular investigation or
 7 case, if known. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to
 8 prohibit the office from prescribing local social services districts
 9 from establishing caseload standards that are less than what is required
 10 in this subdivision.
 11 § 3. The social services law is amended by adding a new section 473-f
 12 to read as follows:
 13 § 473-f. Annual reports. The commissioner shall prepare for inclusion
 14 in the annual report required by subdivision (d) of section seventeen of
 15 this chapter to be filed with the governor and the legislature prior to
 16 December fifteenth of each year, a report on adult protective services.
 17 The report shall, at minimum, include a monthly accounting by local
 18 social services districts of the total number of adult protective
 19 services workers with an indication of how many hold a supervisory posi-
 20 tion, as well as the average number of active cases per adult protective
 21 services worker