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Assembly Bill A10520

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Directs local social services districts to implement an income eligibility standard when available child care block grant funding is nearing exhaustion

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2025-A10520 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §410-x, Soc Serv L

2025-A10520 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a social services district may implement an income eligibility standard for recipients of child care block grant funds when such district projects that allocated funds will be insufficient to open all eligible non-guaranteed cases; sets the income eligibility standards.

2025-A10520 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10520
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. MAHER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to directing  local
   social  services districts to implement an income eligibility standard
   when available child care block grant funding is nearing exhaustion
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 410-x of the social services law,
 as amended by chapter 416 of the laws of 2000, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1. (A) A social services district shall expend its allocation from the
 block grant in a manner that provides for equitable access to child care
 assistance funds to eligible families, and in accordance with the appli-
 cable provisions in federal law regarding the portion of the funds which
 must  be spent on families in receipt of family assistance, families who
 are attempting through work  activities  to  transition  off  of  family
 assistance  and families at-risk of becoming dependent on family assist-
 ance and the portion which must be spent  on  other  working  low-income
 families.  Each  social  services  district  may spend no more than five
 percent of its block grant allocation for administrative activities. The
 term "administrative activities" shall not include the costs of  provid-
 ing direct services.
   (B) WHEN A SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT PROJECTS THAT ALLOCATED CHILD CARE
 BLOCK  GRANT FUNDS WILL BE INSUFFICIENT TO OPEN ALL ELIGIBLE NON-GUARAN-
 TEED CASES, THE DISTRICT MAY PROMULGATE AND IMPLEMENT AN  INCOME  ELIGI-
 BILITY STANDARD FOR RECIPIENTS, PROVIDED SUCH DISTRICT SHALL CONTINUE TO
 ENSURE PRIORITY POPULATIONS, AS IDENTIFIED BY THE OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND
 FAMILY SERVICES IN 18 NYCRR 415.2, HAVE ACCESS TO CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE.
 FOR  THE FIRST MONTH THAT A SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT PROJECTS THAT ALLO-
 CATED CHILD CARE BLOCK GRANT FUNDS WILL  BE  INSUFFICIENT  TO  OPEN  ALL
 ELIGIBLE  NON-GUARANTEED  CASES,  SUCH  INCOME  ELIGIBILITY STANDARD FOR
 RECIPIENTS SHALL BE NO HIGHER THAN THREE HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE  FEDERAL
 POVERTY  LEVEL.  FOR  THE  SECOND  MONTH THAT A SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT
 PROJECTS THAT ALLOCATED CHILD CARE BLOCK GRANT FUNDS  WILL  BE  INSUFFI-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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