Exempts aid derived from funding from childcare stabilization grants, childcare desert funding, or other non-recurring funding, issued by the office of children and family services to childcare providers from income for the purpose of determining aid provided pursuant to public assistance programs.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A6733
SPONSOR: Clark
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the social services law, in relation to exempting
certain income for the purpose of determining aid provided pursuant to
public assistance programs
 
PURPOSE:
To exempt income derived from childcare funding from an individual
childcare provider's income when determining benefits
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Adds income derived from funding from childcare stabilization
grants, childcare desert .funding, or other non-recurring funding,
issued by the office of children and family services to childcare
providers as exempt income to be disregarded when determining benefits
issued to provider.
Section 2: Establishes effective date.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
Many homebased childcare providers are not set up as a corporate entity.
Due to this, funding issued by OCFS within the state budget to stabilize
providers and grow the number of providers in the state has been deemed
income for many of these providers, causing their income to artificially
increase and disqualify them from certain govetnment programs. These
were non-recurring payments which were reinvested back in their programs
for ,Covid-19 supplies, staff, and other items. This legislation would
exempt these payments from being considered income when calculating
public assistance benefits.
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to. state.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6733
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 8, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to exempting
certain income for the purpose of determining aid provided pursuant to
public assistance programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of section 131-a of the
2 social services law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (xii) to
3 read as follows:
4 (xii) all of the income of a head of household or any person in the
5 household, who is receiving such aid or for whom an application for such
6 aid has been made, which is derived from funding from childcare stabili-
7 zation grants, childcare desert funding, or other non-recurring funding,
8 issued by the office of children and family services to childcare
9 providers.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
11 have been in full force and effect on and after January 1, 2023.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10865-01-3