Bill Text: NY S01938 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes the offering of the twelve month work exemption to certain parents or relatives in receipt of public assistance who personally provide child care.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-04 - PRINT NUMBER 1938A [S01938 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01938-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1938--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families -- recommitted to the Committee on Children and Families in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the twelve month work exemption for certain parents or relatives providing child care The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 410-x of the social services law, 2 as amended by chapter 416 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 2. (a) A social services district may establish priorities for the 5 families which will be eligible to receive funding; provided that the 6 priorities provide that eligible families will receive equitable access 7 to child care assistance funds to the extent that these funds are avail- 8 able. 9 (b) A social services district shall set forth its priorities for 10 child care assistance in the district's consolidated services plan. The 11 commissioner of the office of children and family services shall not 12 approve any plan that does not provide for equitable access to child 13 care assistance funds. 14 (c) A social services district shall be authorized to set aside 15 portions of its block grant allocation to serve one or more of its 16 priority groups and/or to discontinue funding to families with lower 17 priorities in order to serve families with higher priorities; provided 18 that the method of disbursement to priority groups provides that eligi- 19 ble families within a priority group will receive equitable access to EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01047-03-8S. 1938--A 2 1 child care assistance funds to the extent that these funds are avail- 2 able. 3 (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the 4 commissioner in any social services district that does not have suffi- 5 cient funding to serve all eligible working families under two hundred 6 percent of the state income standard, shall offer the twelve month work 7 exemption provided in paragraph (d) of subdivision one of section three 8 hundred thirty-two of this chapter, to all parents or other relatives in 9 receipt of public assistance who are personally providing care for a 10 child under one year of age regardless of whether such parent or other 11 relative has previously been offered an exemption under such section 12 three hundred thirty-two. This section shall not apply to individuals 13 who: 14 (i) solely participate in work activities that provide earned income; 15 or 16 (ii) participate in a combination of work activities; for the portion 17 of work activities that provide earned income. 18 (e) In the event that a social services district must discontinue 19 funding to a priority group it shall notify the office of children and 20 family services within ten days of such action, identifying the partic- 21 ular group affected. In the event that funding is restored, the social 22 services district shall notify the office of children and family 23 services within ten days of such restoration. 24 (f) Each social services district shall collect and submit to the 25 commissioner of the office of children and family services in a manner 26 to be specified by the commissioner of the office of children and family 27 services information concerning the disbursement of child care assist- 28 ance funds showing geographic distribution of children receiving assist- 29 ance within the district, the number of working families who were other- 30 wise eligible for child care assistance but who were denied because the 31 district lacked sufficient funding to serve all eligible families and 32 the number and age of children who could not be served as a result. 33 [(e)] (g) The commissioner of the office of children and family 34 services shall submit a report to the governor, temporary president of 35 the senate and the speaker of the assembly on or before August thirty- 36 first[, two thousand one] of every year concerning the implementation of 37 this section. This report shall include information concerning the 38 disbursement of child care assistance funds showing geographic distrib- 39 ution of children receiving assistance within the state. Beginning 40 August thirty-first, one year after the chapter of the laws of two thou- 41 sand eighteen that amended this subdivision shall take effect, and each 42 subsequent report thereafter, such report shall also: 43 (i) identify the counties that have discontinued or restored funding 44 to priority groups, as set forth in subdivision (e) of this section; 45 (ii) list the priority groups affected; 46 (iii) provide for each county for each of the twelve months covered by 47 this report the number of working families who were otherwise eligible 48 for child care assistance but who were denied because the district 49 lacked sufficient funding to serve all eligible families; and 50 (iv) the number and age of children who could not be served as a 51 result. 52 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.