Assembly Bill A2019

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Implements automatic market rate increases for child care assistance

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2023-A2019 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3070
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §410-x, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A10596

2023-A2019 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Implements automatic market rate increases for child care assistance such that assistance will be equal to one hundred percent of the applicable market-related payment rate established by the department.

2023-A2019 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2019
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law,  in  relation  to  implementing
   automatic market rate increases for child care assistance
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 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:
   4. The amount to be paid or allowed for child care  assistance  funded
 under  the  block  grant  shall  be the actual cost of care [but no more
 than] AND EQUAL TO ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF the applicable  market-related
 payment  rate  established by the department in regulations. The payment
 rates established by the department shall be sufficient to ensure  equal
 access  for eligible children to comparable child care assistance in the
 substate area that are provided to children whose parents are not eligi-
 ble to receive assistance under any  federal  or  state  programs.  Such
 payment  rates  shall  take  into account the variations in the costs of
 providing child care in different settings and to children of  different
 age  groups,  and the additional costs of providing child care for chil-
 dren with special needs.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04767-01-3

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