Bill Text: NY A06158 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Limits co-payments for child care subsidies based upon the family's ability to pay; co-payments shall not exceed ten percent of any given family's household income.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-06 - enacting clause stricken [A06158 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06158-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6158 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 28, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TITUS, GOTTFRIED, COOK, PEOPLES-STOKES, GLICK, ZEBROWSKI, JAFFEE, RIVERA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CAHILL, COLTON, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to limiting co-pay- ments for child care subsidies The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 410-x of the social services law, 2 as added by section 52 of part B of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 6. Pursuant to department regulations, child care assistance shall be 5 provided on a sliding fee basis based upon the family's ability to pay. 6 No co-payment shall be assessed to a family whose income is at or below 7 the state income standard as defined in subdivision two of section four 8 hundred ten-w of this title. Co-payments shall not exceed ten percent of 9 the household income. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 11 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05867-01-9