Bill Text: NY A05059 | 2021-2022 | 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 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to children and families [A05059 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05059-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5059

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 10, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS, GOTTFRIED -- 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.
                                                                   LBD07987-01-1