New York A 5084: Requires social services districts to maintain a waiting list of certain families applying for child care assistance

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A05084 Summary:

BILL NOA05084 

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Requires social services districts to maintain a waiting list of certain families applying for child care assistance.

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BILL NOA05084 

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02/12/2025referred to children and families

01/07/2026referred to children and families

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5084

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 12, 2025
 ___________

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

 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.
 21 (b) Each district shall issue a report to the office of children and
 22 family services by October fifteenth, two thousand twenty-six, and annu-
 23 ally thereafter detailing month-to-month information required pursuant

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09186-01-5

 A. 5084 2

 1 to this subdivision for the preceding period of October first through
 2 September thirtieth, and shall include the following:
 3 (i) the average length of time for families on the waiting list;
 4 (ii) the number of families on the waiting list for each of the
 5 following time periods:
 6 (A) less than two weeks,
 7 (B) two weeks to less than a month,
 8 (C) one month to less than three months,
 9 (D) three months to less than six months,
 10 (E) six months to less than a year, and
 11 (F) one year or more;
 12 (iii) the average age of children represented on the waiting list;
 13 (iv) the number of children represented on the waiting list eligible
 14 for each:
 15 (A) infant,
 16 (B) toddler,
 17 (C) pre-school, and
 18 (D) school-aged subsidized child care slots; and
 19 (v) the number of existing infant, toddler, pre-school and school-aged
 20 subsidized child care slots;
 21 (vi) the number of families who would receive child care assistance
 22 except that they are waiting for available slots in a particular child
 23 care program; and
 24 (vii) other information as the district deems appropriate.
 25 (c) For purposes of this subdivision, "eligible family" shall include
 26 all families with incomes at or below two hundred percent of the federal
 27 poverty level, as most recently reported by the federal department of
 28 health and human services, who are otherwise eligible, but who may have
 29 been denied assistance because the local social services district does
 30 not have enough funds to serve all eligible families and has opted to
 31 apply its funds to lower income