Provides that parents and caretakers who are otherwise eligible for a child care subsidy shall receive a subsidy when care is necessary to enable them to sleep because they work a late shift and have a child who is under the age of six and not in school for a full school day; further provides that the authorization for a subsidy shall be sufficient to allow the parent to obtain up to eight hours of sleep, as needed.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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318--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 5, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE, COOK, TITUS, GOTTFRIED, PERRY, PICHARDO,
STECK, MAYER, ARROYO, JOYNER, BLAKE, BICHOTTE, SIMON, WALKER, BRONSON,
OTIS, HOOPER, ABINANTI, ORTIZ, HARRIS, GUNTHER, JEAN-PIERRE, GLICK,
HEVESI, RIVERA, VANEL, SEAWRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
BRAUNSTEIN, CROUCH, GALEF, HIKIND, LUPARDO, SOLAGES, THIELE -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
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 up to
8 eight hours of sleep, as needed.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2018.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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