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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         8152--A
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 10, 2024
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens.  BRISPORT,  BRESLIN, BROUK, JACKSON, MAY, SALAZAR,
          WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be commit-
          ted to the Committee on Children and Families  --  reported  favorably
          from  said  committee  and  committed  to  the Committee on Finance --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social  services law, in relation to child care
          assistance under the child care block grant
 
          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 11 to read as follows:
     3    11. A social services district shall  provide  child  care  assistance
     4  funded  under  the  block grant for additional or different hours than a
     5  parent or caretaker spends in work, training, educational activities  or
     6  other reasons for care designated by the social services district in its
     7  consolidated  services plan in accordance with paragraph (e) of subdivi-
     8  sion one of section four hundred ten-w of this title, including, but not
     9  limited to, paying for full-time child care assistance regardless of the
    10  hours of the activity of the parent's or caretaker's reason for care.
    11    § 2. Section 410-w of the social services law is amended by  adding  a
    12  new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
    13    1-a.  For  all families eligible for child care assistance pursuant to
    14  subdivision one of this section, a social services  district  shall  not
    15  limit  authorized child care services strictly based on the hours during
    16  which the parent or caretaker is engaged in  work,  education  or  other
    17  activity  or  the  number of hours the parent or caretaker is engaged in
    18  any such reasons for care.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect May 30, 2025.
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09315-07-4