Bill Text: NY S03420 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 3420 (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 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-04 - SIGNED CHAP.344 [S03420 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03420-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3420--A
            Cal. No. 1002

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 6, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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 and  said  bill  committed  to  the
          Committee  on Rules -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered
          to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered  to  the  Assembly,
          recalled,  vote  reconsidered,  restored to third reading, amended and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place in 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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