Bill Text: NY A04099 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a statewide presumptive eligibility standard where upon application for child care assistance, with included documentation required by a local social services district, a family shall be presumed eligible for such assistance for a period of thirty to sixty days.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to children and families [A04099 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04099-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4099

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 9, 2023
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        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  establishing  a
          statewide  presumptive  eligibility  standard for the receipt of child
          care assistance

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 1 of section 410-w of
     2  the social services law, as amended by section 2 of part L of chapter 56
     3  of  the  laws  of  2022, are amended and a new paragraph (f) is added to
     4  read as follows:
     5    (d) families with incomes up to  two  hundred  percent  of  the  state
     6  income  standard,  or three hundred percent of the state income standard
     7  effective August first, two thousand twenty-two,  who  are  attending  a
     8  post secondary educational program; provided, the family income does not
     9  exceed eighty-five percent of the state median income; [and]
    10    (e) other families with incomes up to two hundred percent of the state
    11  income  standard,  or three hundred percent of the state income standard
    12  effective August  first,  two  thousand  twenty-two,  which  the  social
    13  services district designates in its consolidated services plan as eligi-
    14  ble for child care assistance in accordance with criteria established by
    15  the  department; provided, the family income does not exceed eighty-five
    16  percent of the state median income[.]; and
    17    (f) families receiving  child  care  assistance  under  a  presumptive
    18  eligibility standard, pursuant to subdivision three-a of this section.
    19    §  2.  Section 410-w of the social services law is amended by adding a
    20  new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
    21    3-a. (a) A social services district shall utilize a presumptive eligi-
    22  bility standard to provide child care assistance to families in need.
    23    (b) Upon application for child care assistance, with included documen-
    24  tation required by a local social services district, a family  shall  be

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04768-01-3
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     1  presumed  eligible  for  such assistance for a period of thirty to sixty
     2  days. A local social services district shall make  eligibility  determi-
     3  nations within thirty to sixty days, to ensure applicants meet necessary
     4  criteria for continued assistance.
     5    (c)  If  a  social services district has not made eligibility determi-
     6  nations after a period of thirty to sixty days  has  elapsed,  a  family
     7  shall  continue  to be presumed eligible for assistance. For eligibility
     8  determinations made after such a period has elapsed,  the  local  social
     9  services  district  shall utilize local funds for such assistance during
    10  the period of presumed eligibility.
    11    (d) If a family has been determined to be presumptively  eligible  for
    12  child care assistance, pursuant to this subdivision, and is subsequently
    13  determined  to  be  ineligible  for  such  assistance,  the local social
    14  services district shall have the authority to utilize block grant  funds
    15  for such assistance during the period of presumed eligibility.
    16    (e)  A social services district shall provide child care assistance to
    17  families under a presumptive  eligibility  standard,  using  child  care
    18  block  grant funds, pursuant to paragraph (f) of subdivision one of this
    19  section.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law.