Establishes differential payment rates for child care services provided by licensed, registered or enrolled child care providers for providers providing care to children experiencing homelessness, child care providers providing care during nontraditional hours, or in other situations deemed appropriate by a local social services district.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1734
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 20, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. CLARK, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, LUNSFORD, PAULIN, SIMONE,
SIMON, MEEKS, BRONSON, KELLES, SEAWRIGHT, THIELE, JACKSON, DARLING,
DAVILA, ZINERMAN, LUPARDO, JEAN-PIERRE, HUNTER, GALLAGHER, FORREST,
MITAYNES, STIRPE, McMAHON, MAGNARELLI, WALLACE, MAMDANI, AUBRY, BRABE-
NEC, HEVESI, SILLITTI -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing
differential payment rates for child care services provided by
licensed, registered or enrolled child care providers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 410-x of the social services law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
3 9. A social services district shall establish differential payment
4 rates for child care services provided by licensed, registered or
5 enrolled child care providers as required by this subdivision.
6 (a) Local social services districts shall establish a differential
7 payment rate for child care services provided by licensed or registered
8 child care providers who provide care to a child or children experienc-
9 ing homelessness. Such differential payment rate shall be fifteen
10 percent higher than the actual cost of care or the applicable market-re-
11 lated payment rate established by the office in regulations, whichever
12 is less.
13 (b) Local social services districts shall establish a differential
14 payment rate for child care services provided by licensed, registered,
15 or enrolled child care providers who provide care to a child during
16 nontraditional hours. Nontraditional hours shall mean care provided in
17 the evening, night or on the weekend. Such differential payment rate
18 shall be fifteen percent higher than the actual cost of care or the
19 applicable market-related payment rate established by the office in
20 regulations, whichever is less.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (c) Local social services districts may establish differential payment
2 rates that are higher than the actual cost of care or applicable market
3 rate for child care services provided in any other situation they deem
4 appropriate to incentivize licensed, registered or enrolled child care
5 providers to serve eligible families in need of care.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
7 the date on which it shall have become a law.
