Bill Text: NY A04470 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides funds for day care services for the children of persons 24 and under to enable such persons to continue secondary and post-secondary education; provides criteria to be governed by standards established for economically and educationally disadvantaged students under special opportunity programs for state and city universities; appropriates $5,600,000 to the office of children and family services therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to children and families [A04470 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04470-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4470

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the  social  services  law,  in  relation  to  day  care
          services and making an appropriation therefor

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

     1    Section 1. Section 410 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     3    3-a. Day care under this title shall also mean and  include  day  care
     4  programs providing care for the children of persons twenty-four years of
     5  age  or  younger, to enable such persons to continue secondary and post-
     6  secondary education. The criteria for such day care eligibility shall be
     7  determined according to the financial criteria promulgated  pursuant  to
     8  section  sixty-four  hundred  fifty-two  of  the education law governing
     9  financial aid to educational opportunity programs and students.
    10    §  2.  The  sum  of  five  million  six   hundred   thousand   dollars
    11  ($5,600,000), or so much thereof as shall be necessary, is hereby appro-
    12  priated to the office of children and family services from any moneys in
    13  the  general  fund  to  the  credit of the local assistance account, not
    14  otherwise appropriated, to be used for reimbursement of  start-up  funds
    15  and operating expenses, including personal service, of day care programs
    16  providing  care  for the children of persons twenty-four years of age or
    17  younger, to enable such persons to continue secondary and post-secondary
    18  education. Such moneys shall  be  distributed,  upon  request  therefor,
    19  through  local  social services districts as provided in subdivision 3-a
    20  of section 410 of the social services law, and shall be payable upon the
    21  audit and warrant of the state  comptroller  on  vouchers  certified  or
    22  approved  by  the  commissioner  of  the  office  of children and family
    23  services or his or her duly designated  representative  as  provided  by
    24  law.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08021-01-3