Bill Text: NY A00318 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 318 (Prior Session Legislation)

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
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                                         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