S6753 • 2025

Limits the number of cases a foster care worker may have under their supervision at any one time to 16 cases

Children Labor

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Jabari Brisport
Last action: 2026-05-19
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Limits the number of cases a foster care worker may have under their supervision at any one time to 16 cases

Limits the number of cases a foster care worker may have under their supervision at any one time to 16 cases Limits the number of cases a foster care worker may have under their supervision at any one time to 16 cases; directs the office of children and family services to promulgate regulations relating to caseload standards for foster care workers.

What This Bill Does

Limits the number of cases a foster care worker may have under their supervision at any one time to 16 cases Limits the number of cases a foster care worker may have under their supervision at any one time to 16 cases; directs the office of children and family services to promulgate regulations relating to caseload standards for foster care workers.

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Bill History

2026-05-19 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2026-03-06 Senate
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
2026-03-06 Senate
PRINT NUMBER 6753A
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
2025-05-29 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2025-03-21 Senate
REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Official Summary Text

Limits the number of cases a foster care worker may have under their supervision at any one time to 16 cases
Limits the number of cases a foster care worker may have under their supervision at any one time to 16 cases; directs the office of children and family services to promulgate regulations relating to caseload standards for foster care workers.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          6753

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     March 21, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. BRISPORT, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and  when  printed  to  be  committed to the Committee on Children and
          Families

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  limitations  on
          the number of cases handled by child welfare personnel

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. The section heading of section 409-g of the social services
     2  law, as added by chapter 611 of the laws of 1979, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    Training of child welfare personnel; LIMITATION ON CASELOADS.
     5    §  2.  Section 409-g of the social services law is amended by adding a
     6  new closing paragraph to read as follows:
     7    NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, THE NUMBER OF CASES  UNDER
     8  THE  SUPERVISION  OF  ANY FOSTER CARE WORKER SHALL NOT EXCEED SIXTEEN AT
     9  ANY ONE TIME.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    11  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11227-01-5