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 eight hours of sleep.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6545
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 21, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Children and Families
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 7 to read as follows:
3 7. 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 eight
8 hours of sleep.
9 § 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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