Standardizes child care copayments by instructing local social services districts to not require a family receiving child care assistance to contribute more than 20% of the amount of their income exceeding the poverty level.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3110--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE, WALLACE, STIRPE, SIMON, D'URSO, GOTT-
FRIED, DE LA ROSA, TAYLOR, PICHARDO, HUNTER, DICKENS, JEAN-PIERRE,
RICHARDSON, STECK, RAMOS, SOLAGES, ARROYO, ASHBY, CRUZ, DAVILA,
FERNANDEZ, ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. THIELE -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Social Services -- 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 standardizing
child care copayments
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 The local social services district shall not require a family receiving
7 child care assistance pursuant to this title to contribute more than
8 twenty percent of the amount of their income exceeding the poverty
9 level.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2021.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03994-03-0
