File #: Int 1077-2024    Version: * Name: Provision of luggage to foster care youth.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Children and Youth
On agenda: 10/10/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the provision of luggage to foster care youth
Sponsors: Rita C. Joseph, Gale A. Brewer, Chi A. Ossé, Kevin C. Riley, Tiffany Cabán, Lynn C. Schulman, Justin L. Brannan, Althea V. Stevens, Sandy Nurse, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Chris Banks, Shahana K. Hanif, Mercedes Narcisse, Farah N. Louis, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Carlina Rivera
Council Member Sponsors: 16
Summary: This bill would require the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) to provide luggage to youth entering the foster care system, transitioning between foster homes, or exiting the foster care system. The bill would also require ACS to report on the number of foster care youth that were provided with luggage, and the demographic information of those youth.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1077, 2. Int. No. 1077, 3. October 10, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-10-24

Int. No. 1077

 

By Council Members Joseph, Brewer, Ossé, Riley, Cabán, Schulman, Brannan, Stevens, Nurse, Sanchez, Banks, Hanif, Narcisse, Louis, Brooks-Powers and Rivera

 

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

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 9 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-925 to read as follows:

§ 21-925 Luggage for foster care youth. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Demographic information. The term “demographic information” means race or ethnicity, gender, community district, primary language, and any other category ACS deems relevant.

Luggage. The term “luggage” means a suitcase, duffel bag, backpack, or similar reusable container that is designed to hold an individual’s personal belongings and is not a disposable bag or trash bag.

b. ACS shall provide luggage to foster care youth who are: (1) entering foster care; (2) moving from one foster care placement to another; or (3) exiting foster care. Such luggage shall be provided in place of disposable bags.

c. No later than December 1 of each year, ACS shall submit a report to the mayor and the speaker of the council a report regarding the provision of luggage to foster care youth. Such report shall include, but need not be limited to, the following information:

1. The total number of foster care youth given luggage, in total and disaggregated by demographic information;

2. To the extent there are foster care youth utilizing disposable bags to transport their belongings, the number of such foster care youth utilizing such disposable bags, in total and disaggregated by demographic information, and the reason they are utilizing such disposable bag; and

3. The supply, cost, and inventory management procedures for ACS’s luggage supply.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

 

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LS #16900

7/25/2024