Provides that sliding scale co-payments for child care assistance funded by block grants for child care assistance made to social service districts shall not exceed ten percent of a family's household income.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. JOHN, GLICK, GREENE, NOLAN, WEINSTEIN -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to limiting co-pay-
ments for child care funded by block grants to ten percent of house-
hold income
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 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 6. Pursuant to department regulations, child care assistance shall be
5 provided on a sliding fee basis based upon the family's ability to pay.
6 Co-payments shall not exceed ten percent of a family's household income.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
8 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the commissioner of
9 children and family services is authorized to promulgate any and all
10 rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement
11 this act on its effective date on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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