Assembly Bill A915

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the statewide presumptive eligibility standard for the receipt of 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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2025-A915 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S757
Current Committee:
Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §410-w, Soc Serv L; amd §2, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.4667-A & A.4099-A)

2025-A915 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the statewide presumptive eligibility standard; authorizes local social services districts to utilize child care block grant funds for the presumptive eligibility period to the extent permitted by federal law; amends the effectiveness thereof.

2025-A915 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    915
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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 the use of child
   care block grant funds for the statewide presumptive eligibility peri-
   od for the receipt of child care assistance; and to amend a chapter of
   the laws of 2024 amending the social services law relating to the  use
   of  child  care block grant funds for the statewide presumptive eligi-
   bility period for the receipt of child care assistance, as proposed in
   legislative bills numbers S. 4667-A and A. 4099-A, in relation to  the
   effectiveness thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3-a of section 410-w  of  the  social  services
 law,  as  amended  by  a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the social
 services law relating to the use of child care block grant funds for the
 statewide presumptive eligibility period for the receipt of  child  care
 assistance,  as  proposed  in legislative bills numbers S. 4667-A and A.
 4099-A, is amended to read as follows:
   3-a. A local social services district [shall] MAY,  UPON  NOTIFICATION
 TO  THE  OFFICE,  utilize  a presumptive eligibility standard to provide
 child care assistance, in accordance with this subdivision.  The  office
 of  children  and  family  services  shall  issue guidance regarding the
 preliminary eligibility criteria to be used  by  local  social  services
 districts utilizing a presumptive eligibility standard.
   (a)  A  local social services district OPTING TO UTILIZE A PRESUMPTIVE
 ELIGIBILITY STANDARD, shall, upon receipt of an  application  for  child
 care  assistance,  including all completed documentation required by the
 district, complete a preliminary eligibility determination.
   (b) If the family meets  the  preliminary  eligibility  criteria,  the
 family  shall  be  presumed  eligible  for child care assistance for the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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