Bill Text: NY S03070 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Implements automatic market rate increases for child care assistance such that assistance will be equal to one hundred percent of the applicable market-related payment rate established by the department.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S03070 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03070-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3070

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law,  in  relation  to  implementing
          automatic market rate increases for child care assistance

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 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    4. The amount to be paid or allowed for child care  assistance  funded
     5  under  the  block  grant  shall  be the actual cost of care [but no more
     6  than] and equal to one hundred percent of the applicable  market-related
     7  payment  rate  established by the department in regulations. The payment
     8  rates established by the department shall be sufficient to ensure  equal
     9  access  for eligible children to comparable child care assistance in the
    10  substate area that are provided to children whose parents are not eligi-
    11  ble to receive assistance under any  federal  or  state  programs.  Such
    12  payment  rates  shall  take  into account the variations in the costs of
    13  providing child care in different settings and to children of  different
    14  age  groups,  and the additional costs of providing child care for chil-
    15  dren with special needs.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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