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Assembly Bill A10288

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Prohibits requiring parents or caretakers to earn a minimum wage or work a minimum number of hours to be eligible for child care assistance

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2021-A10288 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9010
Current Committee:
Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §410-w, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A1303, S4924
2025-2026: A2218, S1994

2021-A10288 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits requiring parents or caretakers to earn a minimum wage or work a minimum number of hours to be eligible for child care assistance.

2021-A10288 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10288
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Clark) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services  law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
   requiring parents or caretakers to earn a minimum wage or work a mini-
   mum number of hours to be eligible for child care assistance

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 410-w of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
   11.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO
 THE CONTRARY, THERE SHALL BE NO MINIMUM EARNINGS REQUIREMENT OR  MINIMUM
 NUMBER  OF  HOURS  WORKED REQUIREMENT FOR PARENTS AND CARETAKERS WHO ARE
 OTHERWISE ELIGIBLE FOR CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION TO
 RECEIVE SUCH ASSISTANCE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13402-02-2

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