Bill Text: NY S06077 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-03 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06077 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06077-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6077--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. BRISPORT, MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and  when  printed  to  be  committed to the Committee on Children and
          Families -- reported favorably from said committee  and  committed  to
          the  Committee  on  Finance  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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.
                                                                   LBD10806-02-1
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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.