Requires local social services 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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5840--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. CLARK, HEVESI, McDONALD, BURDICK, WALLACE, REYES,
BARRON, THIELE, WOERNER, STECK, GOTTFRIED, SANTABARBARA, MEEKS, OTIS,
McMAHON, SILLITTI, GUNTHER, JACKSON, JENSEN, BYRNES, McDONOUGH,
GALLAGHER, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Chil-
dren and Families -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring local
social services 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 services 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 effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10140-03-1
