Bill Text: NY S02001 | 2025-2026 | 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 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-21 - 1ST REPORT CAL.131 [S02001 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02001-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2001

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. BRISPORT, BROUK, FERNANDEZ, JACKSON, MAY, SALAZAR,
          WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be commit-
          ted 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 11 to read as follows:
     3    11.  A  social  services  district shall provide child care assistance
     4  funded under the block grant for additional or different  hours  than  a
     5  parent  or caretaker spends in work, training, educational activities or
     6  other reasons for care designated by the social services district in its
     7  consolidated services plan in accordance with paragraph (e) of  subdivi-
     8  sion one of section four hundred ten-w of this title, including, but not
     9  limited to, paying for full-time child care assistance regardless of the
    10  hours of the activity of the parent's or caretaker's reason for care.
    11    §  2.  Section 410-w of the social services law is amended by adding a
    12  new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
    13    1-a. For all families eligible for child care assistance  pursuant  to
    14  subdivision  one  of  this section, a social services district shall not
    15  limit authorized child care services strictly based on the hours  during
    16  which  the  parent  or  caretaker is engaged in work, education or other
    17  activity or the number of hours the parent or caretaker  is  engaged  in
    18  any such reasons for care.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect May 30, 2026.


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