New York A 5413: Enacts the "help parents find and afford child care act"

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A05413 Summary:

BILL NOA05413 

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SPONSORTapia

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Add Art 6 Title 7-A §§435 - 435-f, Soc Serv L

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Enacts the "help parents find and afford child care act"; provides for child care subsidies to be administered under the child care assistance program; establishes a tri-share child care program; establishes an at-home infant care program; makes related provisions.

Go to top A05413 Actions:

BILL NOA05413 

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02/13/2025referred to children and families

01/07/2026referred to children and families

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Go to topA05413 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5413

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. TAPIA -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Children and Families

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to enacting the
 "help parents find and afford child care act"

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Article 6 of the social services law is amended by adding a
 2 new title 7-A to read as follows:

 3 TITLE 7-A
 4 HELP PARENTS FIND AND AFFORD CHILD CARE ACT

 5 Section 435. Short title.
 6 435-a. Definitions.
 7 435-b. Child care subsidies.
 8 435-c. Tri-share child care program.
 9 435-d. At-home infant care program.
 10 435-e. Supporting military families.
 11 435-f. Reporting.
 12 § 435. Short title. This title shall be known and may be cited as the
 13 "help parents find and afford child care act".
 14 § 435-a. Definitions. For the purposes of this title, the following
 15 terms shall have the following meanings:
 16 1. "Child care assistance program" means the program through which the
 17 office provides child care assistance to low- and moderate-income fami-
 18 lies through funds received from the federal child care and development
 19 block grant, a portion of the state's temporary assistance to needy
 20 families allocation, state funds, and local government funds.
 21 2. "Child day care provider" shall have the same meaning as defined by
 22 section three hundred ninety of this article.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08215-01-5

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 1 3. "Benefit cliff effect" means the sudden decrease in public benefits
 2 than can occur with a small increase in earnings.
 3 4. "Office" means the office of children and family services.
 4 § 435-b. Child care subsidies. 1. The office shall develop a phased
 5 implementation plan for childcare subsidies under the child care assist-
 6 ance program with benchmarks for limiting co-payments, by the year two
 7 thousand thirty, to no more than seven percent of a family's income.
 8 Such implementation plan shall include, but not be limited to, the
 9 following:
 10 (a) a phased approach with benchmarks, that gradually increases eligi-
 11 bility based on income until two thousand thirty and considers eligibil-
 12 ity opportunities for families earning up to two hundred fifty percent
 13 of the median family income in the state;
 14 (b) a graduated system of co-payments to eliminate the benefit cliff
 15 effect for families and to limit the amount a family pays for child
 16 care;
 17 (c) expanded access to a child care subsidy by developing a model to
 18 enable the office to provide contracted slots to programs that service a
 19 family using the child care subsidy; and
 20 (d) a plan, a budget, revenue recommendations, and a timeline to
 21 achieve the goals of this section.
 22 2. Any family that qualifies for public assistance through Medicaid or
 23 the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and chil-
 24 dren under section twenty-five hundred seven of the public health law
 25 shall be deemed to categorically satisfy the income eligibility require-
 26 ments to receive assistance through the child care assistance program.
 27 3. The office shall determine eligibility for the child care assist-
 28 ance program within thirty days of receiving an application. The office
 29 shal