Provides that parents and caretakers who are otherwise eligible for a child care subsidy shall receive a subsidy when care is necessary to enable them to sleep because they work a late shift 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 a subsidy shall be sufficient to allow the parent to obtain up to eight hours of sleep, as needed.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A318A
SPONSOR: Jaffee (MS) TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the social services law, in relation
to parents and caretakers who work a late shift
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
The purpose of this bill is to provide for parents and caretakers who
are otherwise eligible, a child care subsidy when care is necessary to
enable them to get an adequate night's rest.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Amends Section 410-W of the social services law to allow parents and
caretakers who are otherwise eligible for a child care subsidy to
receive a subsidy when care is necessary to enable them to sleep (for
eight hours) because they work a late shift and have a child who is
under the age of six and not in school for a full day.
Section two of the bill would set an effective date of April 1, 2016.
JUSTIFICATION:
Parents who work nights often need child care so that they can sleep
during the day if their children are young and not in school. Regu-
lations currently permit, but do not require social services districts
to provide a child care subsidy to financially eligible parents and
caretakers who work second or third shifts and need child care for their
young children in order to sleep.
Most social services districts (47) do exercise this option and provide
subsidized daytime child care for parents who need to sleep. For those
living in the eleven social services districts that do not provide this
option, life can be very difficult as sleep deprived patents juggle
their need to sleep with caring for a young child. This bill will
assure that low income parents with young children who work the night
shift and need child care to get adequate sleep will be able to do so
regardless of where they live.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
03/21/11 referred to children and families
01/04/12 referred to children and families
05/15/12 reported referred to ways and means
03/13/13 reported referred to ways and means
01/08/14 referred to children and families
05/15/15 passed Assembly 5/17/16 Passed Assembly
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
Undetermined.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
April 1, 2018
STATE OF NEW YORK
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318--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 5, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE, COOK, TITUS, GOTTFRIED, PERRY, PICHARDO,
STECK, MAYER, ARROYO, JOYNER, BLAKE, BICHOTTE, SIMON, WALKER, BRONSON,
OTIS, HOOPER, ABINANTI, ORTIZ, HARRIS, GUNTHER, JEAN-PIERRE, GLICK,
HEVESI, RIVERA, VANEL, SEAWRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
BRAUNSTEIN, CROUCH, GALEF, HIKIND, LUPARDO, SOLAGES, THIELE -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to parents and
caretakers who work a late shift
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 a child care
4 subsidy shall receive a subsidy when care is necessary to enable them to
5 sleep because they work a late shift and have a child who is under the
6 age of six and not in school for a full school day. The authorization
7 for a subsidy shall be sufficient to allow the parent to obtain up to
8 eight hours of sleep, as needed.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2018.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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