§ 410-y. Maintenance of effort. Each social services district shall
maintain the amount of local funds spent for child care assistance under
the child care block grant at a level equal to or greater than the
amount the district spent for child care assistance during federal
fiscal year nineteen hundred ninety-five under title IV-A of the federal
social security act, the federal child care development block grant
program and the state low income child care program. If the state fails
to meet the level of state and local child care funding necessary to
maintain the federal matching funds for child care assistance available
under title IV-a of the federal social security act, the state shall
withhold funding from those social services districts which spent a
lower amount of local funds for child care assistance than the amount
they spent during federal fiscal year nineteen hundred ninety-five,
based on a formula established in department regulations, equal to the
amount of the matching funds which have been lost.