Bill Text: NY S07724 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires each social services district to maintain a waiting list of eligible families who have applied for child care assistance; requires the local districts to report such list to the office of children and family services who shall then compile such reports and issue one report to the legislature annually; requires the social services districts to collect data regarding the income of families who have applied, were denied and received child care assistance and issue a report to the office of children and family services who shall then compile such reports and issue one report to the legislature annually.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-02 - PRINT NUMBER 7724A [S07724 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S07724-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7724--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE October 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. PERSAUD, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Children and Families in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring social services districts to maintain a waiting list of certain families applying for child care assistance The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 410-z of the social services law, as added by 2 section 52 of part B of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 § 410-z. Reporting requirements. 1. Each social services district 5 shall collect and submit to the [department] office of children and 6 family services, in such form and at such times as specified by the 7 [department] office of children and family services, such data and 8 information regarding child care assistance provided under the block 9 grant as the [department] office of children and family services may 10 need to comply with federal reporting requirements. 11 2. (a) Each social services district shall maintain a waiting list of 12 eligible families who have applied for child care assistance pursuant to 13 this title and who have not received such assistance. Such waiting list 14 shall contain information including, but not limited to: 15 (i) the date the child care assistance was requested; 16 (ii) the date the child care assistance was received; 17 (iii) the age of the child or children the assistance was requested on 18 behalf of; and 19 (iv) the total number of families on such waiting list as of the first 20 day of each month. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05295-02-4S. 7724--A 2 1 (b) Each district shall issue a report to the office of children and 2 family services by October fifteenth, two thousand twenty-five, and 3 annually thereafter detailing month-to-month information required pursu- 4 ant to this subdivision for the preceding period of October first 5 through September thirtieth, and shall include the following: 6 (i) the average length of time for families on the waiting list; 7 (ii) the number of families on the waiting list for each of the 8 following time periods: 9 (A) less than two weeks, 10 (B) two weeks to less than a month, 11 (C) one month to less than three months, 12 (D) three months to less than six months, 13 (E) six months to less than a year, and 14 (F) one year or more; 15 (iii) the average age of children represented on the waiting list; 16 (iv) the number of children represented on the waiting list eligible 17 for each: 18 (A) infant, 19 (B) toddler, 20 (C) pre-school, and 21 (D) school-aged subsidized child care slots; and 22 (v) the number of existing infant, toddler, pre-school and school-aged 23 subsidized child care slots; 24 (vi) the number of families who would receive child care assistance 25 except that they are waiting for available slots in a particular child 26 care program; and 27 (vii) other information as the district deems appropriate. 28 3. (a) Each social services district shall collect data regarding the 29 income of families who applied for child care assistance pursuant to 30 this title, specifying: 31 (i) the number of families who were denied; 32 (ii) the number of families who received such assistance; and 33 (iii) a listing of the incomes pursuant to paragraph (b) of this 34 subdivision of the families who applied for such assistance. 35 (b) Each district shall issue a report to the office of children and 36 family services by October fifteenth, two thousand twenty-five, and 37 annually thereafter, detailing month-to-month information collected 38 pursuant to this subdivision for the preceding period of October first 39 through September thirtieth, and shall include the following: 40 (i) the number of all families who applied for and received child care 41 assistance pursuant to this title whose: 42 (A) incomes were under one hundred one percent of the federal poverty 43 level for their family size, 44 (B) incomes were between one hundred one percent and two hundred 45 percent of the federal poverty level for their family size, and 46 (C) incomes were between two hundred one percent and three hundred 47 percent of the federal poverty level for their family size; and 48 (ii) the number of all families who applied for and were denied child 49 care assistance pursuant to this title whose: 50 (A) incomes were under one hundred one percent of the federal poverty 51 level for their family size, 52 (B) incomes were between one hundred one percent and two hundred 53 percent of the federal poverty level for their family size, and 54 (C) incomes were between two hundred one percent and three hundred 55 percent of the federal poverty level for their family size.S. 7724--A 3 1 4. The office of children and family services shall compile such 2 reports pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision two, and paragraph (b) 3 of subdivision three of this section, into one comprehensive report 4 containing all required information on a county by county basis. Such 5 report shall be provided to the governor, the speaker of the assembly, 6 the temporary president of the senate, the chairperson of the assembly 7 committee on children and families, the chairperson of the senate 8 committee on children and families, the chairperson of the assembly 9 committee on social services, the chairperson of the senate committee on 10 social services, the chairperson of the assembly ways and means commit- 11 tee and the chairperson of the senate finance committee no later than 12 December first, two thousand twenty-five, and annually thereafter. 13 5. Reports issued and compiled under this section shall not use the 14 name, address, or any other identifying information of an individual who 15 is the subject of the report and shall ensure the anonymity of those 16 included in the reports. 17 § 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed to require local social 18 services districts to maintain waiting lists for dates preceding the 19 effective date of this act, or to collect data pursuant to subdivision 3 20 of section 410-z of the social services law, as added by section one of 21 this act, for persons who applied for subsidized child care prior to the 22 effective date of this act. 23 § 3. This act shall take effect October 1, 2024. Effective immediate- 24 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation 25 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 26 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.