Senate Bill S3997

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to standardizing child care copayments

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Children And Families 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-S3997 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5012
Current Committee:
Senate Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §410-x, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8928
2015-2016: A6174
2017-2018: S6061, A1438
2019-2020: S1546, A3110

2021-S3997 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Standardizes child care copayments by instructing local social services districts to not require a family receiving child care assistance to contribute more than 20% of the amount of their income exceeding the poverty level.

2021-S3997 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3997 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3997
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 1, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in  relation  to  standardizing
   child care copayments
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 410-x of the social services  law,
 as  added by section 52 of part B of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is
 amended to read as follows:
   6. Pursuant to department regulations, child care assistance shall  be
 provided  on a sliding fee basis based upon the family's ability to pay.
 THE LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT SHALL NOT REQUIRE A FAMILY  RECEIVING
 CHILD  CARE  ASSISTANCE  PURSUANT  TO THIS TITLE TO CONTRIBUTE MORE THAN
 TWENTY PERCENT OF THE AMOUNT  OF  THEIR  INCOME  EXCEEDING  THE  POVERTY
 LEVEL.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD07005-01-1

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