Assembly Bill A7582A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to certain families' access to child care assistance

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S6706 - In Senate Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A7582 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6706
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§410-w & 410-u, Soc Serv L

2021-A7582 - Summary

Relates to the eligibility of certain families with incomes up to eighty-five percent of state median income to receive child care assistance.

2021-A7582 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7582
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 14, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Children and Families
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to certain fami-
   lies' access to child care assistance
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivisions  1,  2  and 3 of section 410-w of the social
 services law, as amended by chapter 569 of the laws of 2001, are amended
 to read as follows:
   1. A social services district may use the funds allocated to  it  from
 the block grant to provide child care assistance to:
   (a)  families receiving public assistance when such child care assist-
 ance is necessary: to enable a parent or caretaker relative to engage in
 work, participate in work activities  or  perform  a  community  service
 pursuant  to  title  nine-B of article five of this chapter; to enable a
 teenage parent to  attend  high  school  or  other  equivalent  training
 program;  because  the  parent  or  caretaker  relative is physically or
 mentally incapacitated; or because family duties away from home necessi-
 tate the parent or caretaker relative's absence; child day care shall be
 provided during breaks in activities, for a period of up to  two  weeks.
 Such child day care may be authorized for a period of up to one month if
 child  care arrangements shall be lost if not continued, and the program
 or employment is scheduled to begin within such period;
   (b) families with incomes up to [two  hundred  percent  of  the  state
 income  standard] EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE STATE MEDIAN INCOME who are
 attempting through work activities to transition off of  public  assist-
 ance  when  such  child care is necessary in order to enable a parent or
 caretaker relative to engage in  work  provided  such  families'  public
 assistance  has  been  terminated  as  a result of increased hours of or
 income from employment or increased income from child  support  payments
 or the family voluntarily ended assistance; and, provided that the fami-

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

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2021-A7582A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6706
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§410-w & 410-u, Soc Serv L

2021-A7582A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the eligibility of certain families with incomes up to eighty-five percent of state median income to receive child care assistance.

2021-A7582A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7582--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 14, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. HEVESI, THIELE -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Children and Families -- reported  and  referred  to  the
   Committee  on  Ways  and  Means -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  certain  fami-
   lies' access to child care assistance
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 of  section  410-w  of  the  social
 services law, as amended by chapter 569 of the laws of 2001, are amended
 to read as follows:
   1.  A  social services district may use the funds allocated to it from
 the block grant to provide child care assistance to:
   (a) families receiving public assistance when such child care  assist-
 ance is necessary: to enable a parent or caretaker relative to engage in
 work,  participate  in  work  activities  or perform a community service
 pursuant to title nine-B of article five of this chapter;  to  enable  a
 teenage  parent  to  attend  high  school  or  other equivalent training
 program; because the parent  or  caretaker  relative  is  physically  or
 mentally incapacitated; or because family duties away from home necessi-
 tate the parent or caretaker relative's absence; child day care shall be
 provided  during  breaks in activities, for a period of up to two weeks.
 Such child day care may be authorized for a period of up to one month if
 child care arrangements shall be lost if not continued, and the  program
 or employment is scheduled to begin within such period;
   (b)  families  with  incomes  up  to [two hundred percent of the state
 income standard] EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE STATE MEDIAN INCOME who  are
 attempting  through  work activities to transition off of public assist-
 ance when such child care is necessary in order to enable  a  parent  or
 caretaker  relative  to  engage  in  work provided such families' public
 assistance has been terminated as a result  of  increased  hours  of  or
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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