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- Reported and committed to finance
- Print number 5184a
- Amend and recommit to children and families
- Referred to children and families
- Referred to children and families
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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
In Senate Committee · Children And Families · Sponsor Ellen C. Jaffee
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Title of bill
An act to amend the social services law, in relation to parents and caretakers who work a late shift
Purpose
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 tc 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, 2017.
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. Regulations 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
2011 and 2012: S.4115 - Children & Families Committee / Reported to Finance Committee
Fiscal implications for state and local governments
Undetermined.
Effective date
April 1, 2017
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