Bill Text: NY A00413 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 413 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Provides that parents and caretakers who are otherwise eligible for child care assistance, and provided with such assistance, shall be able to utilize such assistance when care is necessary to enable them to sleep because they work non-traditional hours and have a child who is under the age of six and not in school for a full school day; further provides that the authorization for assistance shall be sufficient to allow the parent to obtain up to eight hours of sleep, as needed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 38-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-04 - SIGNED CHAP.344 [A00413 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00413-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         413--A
                                                                Cal. No. 469

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. JAFFEE, COOK, GOTTFRIED, PERRY, PICHARDO, STECK,
          JOYNER, SIMON, WALKER, ABINANTI, ORTIZ, GUNTHER,  JEAN-PIERRE,  VANEL,
          ZEBROWSKI,  DICKENS,  BARRON,  TAYLOR,  McDONALD, PAULIN, ENGLEBRIGHT,
          SAYEGH,  HUNTER,  SCHMITT,  CRUZ,  GRIFFIN,  AUBRY,  GLICK,  BICHOTTE,
          ARROYO,  BRONSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, DAVILA,
          DE LA ROSA, GALEF, LUPARDO, NOLAN, SOLAGES, THIELE --  read  once  and
          referred  to  the  Committee  on Children and Families -- reported and
          referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- reported  from  commit-
          tee,  advanced  to  a  third  reading,  amended and ordered reprinted,
          retaining its place on the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the social services law,  in  relation  to  parents  and
          caretakers who work non-traditional hours

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

     1    Section 1. Section 410-w of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9.  Parents  and  caretakers who are otherwise eligible for child care
     4  assistance, and provided with such assistance, shall be able to  utilize
     5  the  assistance  when  care is necessary to enable them to sleep because
     6  they work non-traditional hours and have a child who is under the age of
     7  six and not in school for a full school day. The authorization for child
     8  care assistance shall be sufficient to allow the parent to obtain up  to
     9  eight hours of sleep, as needed.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2020.



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