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New YorkS 7842025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Relates to the termination of certain subsidies provided to adoptive parents for disabled or hard to place children
Sponsored By: Roxanne J. Persaud (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Adoption subsidies follow children to new guardians
When an adoptive parent's subsidy ends through the support-duty review, New York must pay the child's new custodian or guardian. The child must live with that person, who must have been granted physical custody or appointed guardian. A written agreement provides payments back to the termination date and continues them until the child's 21st birthday. Recipients must meet adoption-subsidy requirements; anyone whose parental rights to this child were terminated or surrendered cannot receive payments. This rule takes effect 90 days after federal approval of the relevant Title IV-E adoption assistance plan amendment.
Adoptive families regain subsidies after foster care
Officials must restart an adoption subsidy ended through the law's review of adoptive parents' support duties when the child returns from foster care. This applies when the child returns to the adoptive parent's care. Payments reach back to the date the child returned. This rule takes effect 90 days after federal approval of the relevant Title IV-E adoption assistance plan amendment.
Young adults receive adoption subsidy payments
New York must redirect adoption subsidies ended after the child's 18th birthday but before the 21st to the young adult. This applies when nobody other than the adoptive parents has legal custody or guardianship. Officials pay young adults directly when they can manage the money; otherwise, a certified representative receives payments for them. Those turning 21 while that certification is pending receive direct back payments from the adoptive parent's death or applicable post-18 termination date. These rules take effect 90 days after federal approval of the relevant Title IV-E adoption assistance plan amendment.
New subsidy safeguards and limits for parents
New York sets notice-and-response rules before ending adoption subsidies for children with disabilities or who are hard to place. Officials must stop termination action when adoptive parents confirm they continue meeting their legal support duties. Without confirmation, officials must review available information: outside foster care, payments must end if parents have no legal support duty or provide no support. In foster care, payments must end if parents provide no support; parents can appeal terminations, reductions, or suspensions. These rules take effect with the related 2024 law, 90 days after that law's enactment.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Roxanne J. Persaud
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 1/22/2025
Assembly floor vote
Yes: 145 • No: 0
Senate vote • 1/14/2025
FLOOR Vote
Yes: 57 • No: 3
committee vote • 1/13/2025
Rules Committee Vote
Yes: 21 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
SIGNED CHAP.6
1/27/2025SenateDELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
1/23/2025SenateRETURNED TO SENATE
1/22/2025HousePASSED ASSEMBLY
1/22/2025HouseORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.18
1/22/2025HouseSUBSTITUTED FOR A917
1/22/2025HouseREFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
1/14/2025HouseDELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
1/14/2025SenatePASSED SENATE
1/14/2025SenateORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.58
1/13/2025SenateREFERRED TO RULES
1/8/2025Senate
Bill Text
Original
1/6/2025
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