Provides that a caregiver shall be eligible for assistance for child care under the child care block grant regardless of the hours the parent actually works.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3174--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI, LUNSFORD, BRONSON, ROZIC, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
SIMON, LEVENBERG, CLARK, COLTON, BURROUGHS -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Children and Families -- reported and referred to
the Committee on Ways and Means -- recommitted to the Committee on
Ways and Means in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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 may provide child care assistance fund-
4 ed under the block grant for additional or different hours than a parent
5 or caretaker spends in work, training, educational activities or other
6 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 is not
15 required to limit authorized child care services strictly based on the
16 hours during which the parent or caretaker is engaged in work, education
17 or other activity or the number of hours the parent or caretaker is
18 engaged in any such reasons for care.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
20 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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