Bill Text: NY A02019 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Implements automatic market rate increases for child care assistance such that assistance will be equal to one hundred percent of the applicable market-related payment rate established by the department.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A02019 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A02019-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2019 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to implementing automatic market rate increases for child care assistance The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 410-x of the social services law, 2 as added by section 52 of part B of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 4. The amount to be paid or allowed for child care assistance funded 5 under the block grant shall be the actual cost of care [but no more6than] and equal to one hundred percent of the applicable market-related 7 payment rate established by the department in regulations. The payment 8 rates established by the department shall be sufficient to ensure equal 9 access for eligible children to comparable child care assistance in the 10 substate area that are provided to children whose parents are not eligi- 11 ble to receive assistance under any federal or state programs. Such 12 payment rates shall take into account the variations in the costs of 13 providing child care in different settings and to children of different 14 age groups, and the additional costs of providing child care for chil- 15 dren with special needs. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04767-01-3