Bill Text: NY S03997 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
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 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S03997 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S03997-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3997 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 1, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families 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 on the first of April next succeeding 11 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07005-01-1
