Bill Text: NY A04266 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes child care assistance to be made available to certain victims of domestic violence who are in need of assistance in order for a parent or caretaker relative to engage in work or participate in work activities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-31 - referred to children and families [A04266 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A04266-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4266

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 31, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM, GRAY, GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Children and Families

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social  services law, in relation to child care
          assistance for victims of domestic violence

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 1 of section 410-w of
     2  the social services law, as amended by section 2 of part U of chapter 56
     3  of  the  laws  of  2023, are amended and a new paragraph (f) is added to
     4  read as follows:
     5    (d) families with incomes up to eighty-five percent of the state medi-
     6  an income, who are attending a post secondary educational program; [and]
     7    (e) other families with incomes up to eighty-five percent of the state
     8  median income in accordance with criteria  established  by  the  depart-
     9  ment[.]; and
    10    (f)  victims  of  domestic violence as defined in section four hundred
    11  eighty-one-c of this chapter who are in need of assistance in order  for
    12  a  parent or caretaker relative to engage in work or participate in work
    13  activities pursuant to the provisions of title nine-B of article five of
    14  this chapter.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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