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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         5327--A
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      March 2, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sens. BRISPORT, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and  when  printed  to  be  committed to the Committee on Children and
          Families -- reported favorably from said committee  and  committed  to
          the  Committee  on  Finance  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the social services  law,  in  relation  to  child  care
          assistance under the child care block grant
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 410-x of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     3    10.  A  social  services  district shall provide child care assistance
     4  funded under the block grant for additional or different  hours  than  a
     5  parent  or caretaker spends in work, training, educational activities or
     6  other reasons for care designated by the social services district in its
     7  consolidated services plan in accordance with paragraph (e) of  subdivi-
     8  sion one of section four hundred ten-w of this title, including, but not
     9  limited to, paying for full-time child care assistance regardless of the
    10  hours of the activity of the parent's or caretaker's reason for care.
    11    §  2.  Section 410-w of the social services law is amended by adding a
    12  new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
    13    1-a. For all families eligible for child care assistance  pursuant  to
    14  subdivision  one  of  this section, a social services district shall not
    15  limit authorized child care services strictly based on the hours  during
    16  which  the  parent  or  caretaker is engaged in work, education or other
    17  activity or the number of hours the parent or caretaker  is  engaged  in
    18  any such reasons for care.
    19    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    20  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09315-05-3