Bill Text: NY A00318 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides that parents and caretakers who are otherwise eligible for a child care subsidy shall receive a subsidy when care is necessary to enable them to sleep because they work a late shift and have a child who is under the age of six and not in school for a full school day; further provides that the authorization for a subsidy shall be sufficient to allow the parent to obtain up to eight hours of sleep, as needed.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 38-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A00318 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A00318-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 318--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 5, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE, COOK, TITUS, GOTTFRIED, PERRY, PICHARDO, STECK, MAYER, ARROYO, JOYNER, BLAKE, BICHOTTE, SIMON, WALKER, BRONSON, OTIS, HOOPER, ABINANTI, ORTIZ, HARRIS, GUNTHER, JEAN-PIERRE, GLICK, HEVESI, RIVERA, VANEL, SEAWRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, CROUCH, GALEF, HIKIND, LUPARDO, SOLAGES, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families -- commit- tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom- mitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to parents and caretakers who work a late shift The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 410-w of the social services law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows: 3 9. Parents and caretakers who are otherwise eligible for a child care 4 subsidy shall receive a subsidy when care is necessary to enable them to 5 sleep because they work a late shift and have a child who is under the 6 age of six and not in school for a full school day. The authorization 7 for a subsidy shall be sufficient to allow the parent to obtain up to 8 eight hours of sleep, as needed. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2018. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01763-02-7