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Assembly Bill A3174

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to child care assistance under the child care block grant

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2025-A3174 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§410-x & 410-w, Soc Serv L

2025-A3174 - Summary

Provides that a caregiver shall be eligible for assistance for child care under the child care block grant regardless of the hours the parent actually works.

2025-A3174 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3174
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI, LUNSFORD, BRONSON, ROZIC, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
   SIMON,  LEVENBERG,  CLARK,  COLTON  --  read  once and referred to the
   Committee on Children and Families
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Section 410-x of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
   11.  A  SOCIAL  SERVICES  DISTRICT SHALL PROVIDE CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE
 FUNDED UNDER THE BLOCK GRANT FOR ADDITIONAL OR DIFFERENT  HOURS  THAN  A
 PARENT  OR CARETAKER SPENDS IN WORK, TRAINING, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OR
 OTHER REASONS FOR CARE DESIGNATED BY THE SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT IN ITS
 CONSOLIDATED SERVICES PLAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH (E) OF  SUBDIVI-
 SION ONE OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED TEN-W OF THIS TITLE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
 LIMITED TO, PAYING FOR FULL-TIME CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE REGARDLESS OF THE
 HOURS OF THE ACTIVITY OF THE PARENT'S OR CARETAKER'S REASON FOR CARE.
   §  2.  Section 410-w of the social services law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
   1-A. FOR ALL FAMILIES ELIGIBLE FOR CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE  PURSUANT  TO
 SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS SECTION, A SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT SHALL NOT
 LIMIT AUTHORIZED CHILD CARE SERVICES STRICTLY BASED ON THE HOURS  DURING
 WHICH  THE  PARENT  OR  CARETAKER IS ENGAGED IN WORK, EDUCATION OR OTHER
 ACTIVITY OR THE NUMBER OF HOURS THE PARENT OR CARETAKER  IS  ENGAGED  IN
 ANY SUCH REASONS FOR CARE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect May 30, 2026.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05861-01-5

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2025-A3174A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§410-x & 410-w, Soc Serv L

2025-A3174A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a caregiver shall be eligible for assistance for child care under the child care block grant regardless of the hours the parent actually works.

2025-A3174A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  3174--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI, LUNSFORD, BRONSON, ROZIC, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
   SIMON,  LEVENBERG,  CLARK, COLTON, BURROUGHS -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Children and Families -- reported and referred  to
   the  Committee  on  Ways  and Means -- recommitted to the Committee on
   Ways and Means 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  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:
 
   Section 1. Section 410-x of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
   11. A SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT MAY PROVIDE CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE FUND-
 ED UNDER THE BLOCK GRANT FOR ADDITIONAL OR DIFFERENT HOURS THAN A PARENT
 OR  CARETAKER  SPENDS IN WORK, TRAINING, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OR OTHER
 REASONS FOR CARE DESIGNATED BY  THE  SOCIAL  SERVICES  DISTRICT  IN  ITS
 CONSOLIDATED  SERVICES PLAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH (E) OF SUBDIVI-
 SION ONE OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED TEN-W OF THIS TITLE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
 LIMITED TO, PAYING FOR FULL-TIME CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE REGARDLESS OF THE
 HOURS OF THE ACTIVITY OF THE PARENT'S OR CARETAKER'S REASON FOR CARE.
   § 2. Section 410-w of the social services law is amended by  adding  a
 new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
   1-A.  FOR  ALL FAMILIES ELIGIBLE FOR CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO
 SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION,  A  SOCIAL  SERVICES  DISTRICT  IS  NOT
 REQUIRED  TO  LIMIT AUTHORIZED CHILD CARE SERVICES STRICTLY BASED ON THE
 HOURS DURING WHICH THE PARENT OR CARETAKER IS ENGAGED IN WORK, EDUCATION
 OR OTHER ACTIVITY OR THE NUMBER OF HOURS  THE  PARENT  OR  CARETAKER  IS
 ENGAGED IN ANY SUCH REASONS FOR CARE.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05861-03-6

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