Bill Text: NY A06174 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 6174 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Standardizes child care copayments by instructing local social services districts to not require a family receiving child care assistance to contribute more than 20% of the amount of their income exceeding the poverty level.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-17 - reported referred to ways and means [A06174 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06174-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6174--B
                                                                Cal. No. 235
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 16, 2015
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        Introduced  by M. of A. RUSSELL, WALKER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Social Services -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee --
          advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,  retaining
          its place on the order of third reading
        AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to standardizing
          child care copayments
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 6 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    6.  Pursuant to department regulations, child care assistance shall be
     5  provided on a sliding fee basis based upon the family's ability to  pay.
     6  The  local social services district shall not require a family receiving
     7  child care assistance pursuant to this title  to  contribute  more  than
     8  twenty  percent  of  the  amount  of  their income exceeding the poverty
     9  level.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2017.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08787-03-6