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A00775 Summary:

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A00775 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
 submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)



 
BILL NUMBER: A775B
 
SPONSOR: Jaffee (MS)

 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the social services law, in relation
to parents and caretakers who work a late shift
 
 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
 
The purpose of this bill is to provide for parents and caretakers who
are otherwise eligible, a child care subsidy when care is necessary to
enable them to get an adequate night's rest.
 
 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
 
Amends Section 410-W of the social services law to allow parents and
caretakers who are otherwise eligible for a child care subsidy to

receive a subsidy when care is necessary to enable them to sleep (for
eight hours) because they work a late shift and have a child who is
under the age of six and not in school for a full day.
 
Section two of the bill would set an effective date of April 1, 2016.
 
 
JUSTIFICATION:
 
Parents who work nights often need child care so that they can sleep
during the day if their children are young and not in school.  Regu-
lations currently permit, but do not require social services districts
to provide a child care subsidy to financially eligible parents and
caretakers who work second or third shifts and need child care for their
young children in order to sleep.
 
Most social services districts (47) do exercise this option and provide
subsidized daytime child care for parents who need to sleep.  For those
living in the eleven social services districts that do not provide this
option, life can be very difficult as sleep deprived patents juggle

their need to sleep with caring for a young child.
 
This bill will assure that low income parents with young children who
work the night shift and need child care to get adequate sleep will be
able to do so regardless of where they live.
 
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
 
03/21/11 referred to children and families 01/04/12 referred to children
and families 05/15/12 reported referred to ways and means
03/13/13 reported referred to ways and means
01/08/14 referred to children and families
05/15/15 passed Assembly
 
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
 
Undetermined.
 
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
April 1, 2017

A00775 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         775--B
                                                                 Cal. No. 41
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. JAFFEE, COOK, TITUS, ROBINSON, SCHIMEL, GOTT-
          FRIED, CLARK, PERRY, PICHARDO, STECK, MAYER, ARROYO, JOYNER,  LINARES,
          BLAKE,  BICHOTTE,  SIMON, WALKER, BRONSON, OTIS, HOOPER -- Multi-Spon-
          sored by -- M. of A.  BRENNAN, GALEF, GLICK, HEVESI, LUPARDO,  MARKEY,
          RIVERA,  SOLAGES,  THIELE,  WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Children  and  Families  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee -- advanced to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining its place on the order of third reading
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social services law, in relation to parents and
          caretakers who work a late shift
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  410-w  of  the social services law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9. Parents and caretakers who are otherwise eligible for a child  care
     4  subsidy shall receive a subsidy when care is necessary to enable them to
     5  sleep  because  they work a late shift and have a child who is under the
     6  age of six and not in school for a full school  day.  The  authorization
     7  for  a  subsidy  shall be sufficient to allow the parent to obtain eight
     8  hours of sleep.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2017.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06055-04-6