Bill Text: NY A01734 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes differential payment rates for child care services provided by licensed, registered or enrolled child care providers for providers providing care to children experiencing homelessness, child care providers providing care during nontraditional hours, or in other situations deemed appropriate by a local social services district.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A01734 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01734-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1734

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 20, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, LUNSFORD, PAULIN, SIMONE,
          SIMON, MEEKS, BRONSON, KELLES, SEAWRIGHT,  THIELE,  JACKSON,  DARLING,
          DAVILA,  ZINERMAN,  LUPARDO,  JEAN-PIERRE, HUNTER, GALLAGHER, FORREST,
          MITAYNES, STIRPE, McMAHON, MAGNARELLI, WALLACE, MAMDANI, AUBRY, BRABE-
          NEC, HEVESI, SILLITTI -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
          Children and Families

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the social services law, in relation to establishing
          differential  payment  rates  for  child  care  services  provided  by
          licensed, registered or enrolled child care providers

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 410-x of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9.  A  social  services  district shall establish differential payment
     4  rates for child  care  services  provided  by  licensed,  registered  or
     5  enrolled child care providers as required by this subdivision.
     6    (a)  Local  social  services  districts shall establish a differential
     7  payment rate for child care services provided by licensed or  registered
     8  child  care providers who provide care to a child or children experienc-
     9  ing homelessness.  Such  differential  payment  rate  shall  be  fifteen
    10  percent higher than the actual cost of care or the applicable market-re-
    11  lated  payment  rate established by the office in regulations, whichever
    12  is less.
    13    (b) Local social services districts  shall  establish  a  differential
    14  payment  rate  for child care services provided by licensed, registered,
    15  or enrolled child care providers who provide  care  to  a  child  during
    16  nontraditional  hours.  Nontraditional hours shall mean care provided in
    17  the evening, night or on the weekend.  Such  differential  payment  rate
    18  shall  be  fifteen  percent  higher  than the actual cost of care or the
    19  applicable market-related payment rate  established  by  the  office  in
    20  regulations, whichever is less.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04507-01-3
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     1    (c) Local social services districts may establish differential payment
     2  rates  that are higher than the actual cost of care or applicable market
     3  rate for child care services provided in any other situation  they  deem
     4  appropriate  to  incentivize licensed, registered or enrolled child care
     5  providers to serve eligible families in need of care.
     6    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
     7  the date on which it shall have become a law.