Bill Text: NY A09220 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the office of children and family services implement a regional cost factor analysis for child care subsidies; requires social service districts implement such findings.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 15-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-16 - referred to children and families [A09220 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09220-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9220

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. GANDOLFO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Children and Families

        AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to requiring the
          office of children and  family  services  implement  a  regional  cost
          factor analysis 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 2 of section 410-x of the social services  law,
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (b) to read as follows:
     3    (b)  (i)  The office of children and family services shall complete an
     4  analysis to determine regional cost  factors  for  child  care  services
     5  provided by licensed, registered and enrolled child care providers. Such
     6  regional  cost  factors shall take into account the differences in child
     7  care costs and costs of living in a regional and local  social  services
     8  district.  The  office  shall  create  the  regional  cost factors to be
     9  applied using the regions as defined by section two  hundred  thirty  of
    10  the  economic  development law. The regional cost factors shall, include
    11  but not be limited to, the following:
    12    (1) the county cluster that a local social services district is a part
    13  of as defined by the most recent market rate survey;
    14    (2) the market rate costs as defined by the most  recent  market  rate
    15  survey for each local social services district;
    16    (3) the number of providers per local social services district;
    17    (4) the average median income of each local social services district;
    18    (5)  the  minimum  wage  rate  of  each  county  within a local social
    19  services district; and
    20    (6) the poverty rate of each local social services district.
    21    (ii) Local social services districts shall be  required  to  implement
    22  such  regional  cost factors for child care services to incentivize such
    23  operation of child care providers or child care centers.
    24    (iii) The office shall complete such analysis  of  the  regional  cost
    25  factors  and  produce what cost factors for each region would be for the
    26  following year, not later than one year after the effective date of this
    27  paragraph.
    28    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13894-02-4