Bill Text: NY A04986 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a caregiver shall be eligible for assistance for child care under the child care block grant regardless of the hours the parent actually works.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-10 - substituted by s5327a [A04986 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04986-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4986

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Children and Families

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social  services law, in relation to child care
          assistance under the child care block grant

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  410-x  of  the social services law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this title, a family eligi-
     4  ble for child care assistance under this title based on the parent's  or
     5  caregiver's employment, training, educational program, or other approved
     6  activity,  shall  be eligible for a full-time child care slot regardless
     7  of the hours of the activity of the parent's or caregiver's  reason  for
     8  care, provided that the amount to be paid or allowed shall be the actual
     9  cost  of  care  but  no  more than the applicable market-related payment
    10  rate.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    12  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09315-01-3