Implements automatic market rate increases for child care assistance such that assistance will be equal to one hundred percent of the applicable market-related payment rate established by the department.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2019
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to implementing
automatic market rate increases for child care assistance
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 410-x of the social services law,
2 as added by section 52 of part B of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 4. The amount to be paid or allowed for child care assistance funded
5 under the block grant shall be the actual cost of care [but no more
6 than] and equal to one hundred percent of the applicable market-related
7 payment rate established by the department in regulations. The payment
8 rates established by the department shall be sufficient to ensure equal
9 access for eligible children to comparable child care assistance in the
10 substate area that are provided to children whose parents are not eligi-
11 ble to receive assistance under any federal or state programs. Such
12 payment rates shall take into account the variations in the costs of
13 providing child care in different settings and to children of different
14 age groups, and the additional costs of providing child care for chil-
15 dren with special needs.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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