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                                    577
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JAFFEE,  LUPARDO,  D'URSO, GALEF, GOTTFRIED,
   ABINANTI, COOK, JEAN-PIERRE, STECK, TAYLOR, COLTON, DICKENS, BARRON --
   Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to  the
   Committee on Children and Families

 AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to reimbursement
   for child care absences
 
   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 9 to read as follows:
   9. REIMBURSEMENT FOR PAYMENT ON BEHALF OF CHILDREN WHO ARE TEMPORARILY
 ABSENT FROM CHILD CARE IS REQUIRED FOR A MINIMUM OF TWELVE DAYS IN A SIX
 MONTH PERIOD.  A MAXIMUM NUMBER OF ABSENCES, WHICH SHALL BE NO LESS THAN
 TWENTY-FOUR DAYS IN A SIX MONTH PERIOD SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE OFFICE
 OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES PURSUANT  TO  REGULATION.  REIMBURSEMENT
 FOR  ADDITIONAL  ABSENCES  SHALL BE ALLOWABLE IN THE CASE OF EXTENUATING
 CIRCUMSTANCES, AS DETERMINED  BY  THE  OFFICE  OF  CHILDREN  AND  FAMILY
 SERVICES PURSUANT TO REGULATION.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02786-01-9