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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6839--A
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     April 19, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. TITUS, SILVER, NOLAN, HEASTIE, LUPARDO, RUSSELL,
          MOSLEY, CLARK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN,  DAVILA,
          FAHY,  JAFFEE,  LAVINE, ROBINSON, SEPULVEDA, SOLAGES, STECK, WEINSTEIN
          -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on  Social  Services  --
          recommitted  to  the  Committee  on Social Services 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 the twelve month
          work exemption for certain parents or relatives providing child care
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 410-x of the social services law,
     2  as amended by chapter 416 of the laws of 2000, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    2.  (a)  A  social  services district may establish priorities for the
     5  families which will be eligible to receive funding;  provided  that  the
     6  priorities  provide that eligible families will receive equitable access
     7  to child care assistance funds to the extent that these funds are avail-
     8  able.

     9    (b) A social services district shall  set  forth  its  priorities  for
    10  child  care assistance in the district's consolidated services plan. The
    11  commissioner of the office of children and  family  services  shall  not
    12  approve  any  plan  that  does not provide for equitable access to child
    13  care assistance funds.
    14    (c) A social services  district  shall  be  authorized  to  set  aside
    15  portions  of  its  block  grant  allocation  to serve one or more of its
    16  priority groups and/or to discontinue funding  to  families  with  lower
    17  priorities  in  order to serve families with higher priorities; provided
    18  that the method of disbursement to priority groups provides that  eligi-
    19  ble  families  within  a priority group will receive equitable access to
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  child care assistance funds to the extent that these  funds  are  avail-
     2  able.
     3    (d)  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of law to the contrary, the
     4  commissioner in any social services district that does not  have  suffi-
     5  cient  funding  to serve all eligible working families under two hundred
     6  percent of the state income standard, shall offer the twelve month  work
     7  exemption  provided in paragraph (d) of subdivision one of section three
     8  hundred thirty-two of this chapter, to all parents or other relatives in

     9  receipt of public assistance who are personally  providing  care  for  a
    10  child  under  one year of age regardless of whether such parent or other
    11  relative has previously been offered an  exemption  under  such  section
    12  three  hundred  thirty-two.  This section shall not apply to individuals
    13  who:
    14    (i) solely participate in work activities that provide earned  income;
    15  or
    16    (ii)  participate in a combination of work activities; for the portion
    17  of work activities that provide earned income.
    18    (e) In the event that a  social  services  district  must  discontinue
    19  funding  to  a priority group it shall notify the office of children and
    20  family services within ten days of such action, identifying the  partic-

    21  ular  group  affected. In the event that funding is restored, the social
    22  services district  shall  notify  the  office  of  children  and  family
    23  services within ten days of such restoration.
    24    (f)  Each  social  services  district  shall collect and submit to the
    25  commissioner of the office of children and family services in  a  manner
    26  to be specified by the commissioner of the office of children and family
    27  services  information  concerning the disbursement of child care assist-
    28  ance funds showing geographic distribution of children receiving assist-
    29  ance within the district, the number of working families who were other-
    30  wise eligible for child care assistance but who were denied because  the
    31  district  lacked  sufficient  funding to serve all eligible families and

    32  the number and age of children who could not be served as a result.
    33    [(e)] (g) The commissioner  of  the  office  of  children  and  family
    34  services  shall  submit a report to the governor, temporary president of
    35  the senate and the speaker of the assembly on or before  August  thirty-
    36  first[, two thousand one] of every year concerning the implementation of
    37  this  section.  This  report  shall  include  information concerning the
    38  disbursement of child care assistance funds showing geographic  distrib-
    39  ution  of  children  receiving  assistance  within  the state. Beginning
    40  August thirty-first, two thousand fifteen, such report, and each  subse-
    41  quent report thereafter, shall also:
    42    (i)  identify  the counties that have discontinued or restored funding

    43  to priority groups, as set forth in subdivision (e) of this section;
    44    (ii) list the priority groups affected;
    45    (iii) provide for each county for each of the twelve months covered by
    46  this report the number of working families who were  otherwise  eligible
    47  for  child  care  assistance  but  who  were denied because the district
    48  lacked sufficient funding to serve all eligible families; and
    49    (iv) the number and age of children who  could  not  be  served  as  a
    50  result.
    51    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.