Bill Text: NY S06124 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits co-payments for child care subsidies based upon the family's ability to pay; co-payments shall not exceed ten percent of any given family's household income.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S06124 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06124-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6124

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- 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 limiting co-pay-
          ments for child care subsidies

          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  No  co-payment shall be assessed to a family whose income is at or below
     7  the state income standard as defined in subdivision two of section  four
     8  hundred ten-w of this title. Co-payments shall not exceed ten percent of
     9  the household income.
    10    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    11  ing 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.
                                                                   LBD11894-01-9