Bill Text: NY A05272 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes child care assistance to be made available to certain victims of domestic violence who are in need of assistance in order for a parent or caretaker relative to engage in work or participate in work activities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-15 - enacting clause stricken [A05272 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05272-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5272

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. GRAY -- 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 for victims of domestic violence

          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)  victims  of  domestic violence as defined in section four hundred
    18  eighty-one-c of this chapter who are in need of assistance in order  for
    19  a  parent or caretaker relative to engage in work or participate in work
    20  activities pursuant to the provisions of title nine-B of article five of
    21  this chapter.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09736-01-3