Authorizes the office of children and family services to promulgate rules and regulations to establish differential market rates applicable to accredited child care; mandates that such programs shall receive a reimbursement rate for the provision of child care services that is fifty percent higher than the local market rate set forth by the office of children and family services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3235
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. CHRISTENSEN, JACOBS, COOK -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. CAHILL, CLARK, DINOWITZ, GLICK, GREENE, GUNTHER, JOHN,
MARKEY, McENENY, ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing the
office of children and family services to establish differential
market rates applicable to accredited child care programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 390 of the social services law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 12-a to read as follows:
3 12-a. The office of children and family services shall promulgate
4 rules and regulations establishing differential market rates applicable
5 to child care programs accredited by the national association for the
6 education of young children, the national association of family child
7 care or any other nationally recognized child care accrediting body.
8 Such programs shall receive a reimbursement rate for the provision of
9 child care services that is up to fifty percent higher than the local
10 market rate set forth by such office.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
12 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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