Bill Text: NY S05162 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires local social service districts to offer to pay childcare providers via a direct deposit for any subsidized child care funds owed; requires the local services offices to provide forms to request such payments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-12-01 - APPROVAL MEMO.54 [S05162 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05162-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5162

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 25, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sen. BRISPORT -- 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 requiring  local
          social  service  districts  to  offer to pay childcare providers via a
          direct deposit for any subsidized child care funds owed

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

     1    Section 1. Section 390-c of the social services law, as added by chap-
     2  ter 460 of the laws of 2000, is amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to
     3  read as follows:
     4    4.  The commissioner of children and family services is authorized and
     5  directed, no later than one year from the effective date of this  subdi-
     6  vision, to promulgate rules and regulations to require that local social
     7  service  districts offer child day care providers, as defined in section
     8  three hundred ninety of this title, the option to  be  paid  any  monies
     9  owed  for  providing  subsidized child care by a deposit directly into a
    10  bank account of the child day care provider. Such direct  deposit  shall
    11  only be made at the express written consent of the provider and shall be
    12  requested  on  forms  provided by the local social services district and
    13  duly filled in by the provider. Such written consent can be  revoked  at
    14  any  time  by  the  provider  in  writing on forms provided by the local
    15  social services district.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effective immediately.



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