New York Assembly Bill A09220 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9220  IN ASSEMBLY February 16, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GANDOLFO -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Children and Families AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring the office of children and family services implement a regional cost factor analysis for child care subsidies The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 410-x of the social services law, 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (b) to read as follows: 3 (b) (i) The office of children and family services shall complete an 4 analysis to determine regional cost factors for child care services 5 provided by licensed, registered and enrolled child care providers. Such 6 regional cost factors shall take into account the differences in child 7 care costs and costs of living in a regional and local social services 8 district. The office shall create the regional cost factors to be 9 applied using the regions as defined by section two hundred thirty of 10 the economic development law. The regional cost factors shall, include 11 but not be limited to, the following: 12 (1) the county cluster that a local social services district is a part 13 of as defined by the most recent market rate survey; 14 (2) the market rate costs as defined by the most recent market rate 15 survey for each local social services district; 16 (3) the number of providers per local social services district; 17 (4) the average median income of each local social services district; 18 (5) the minimum wage rate of each county within a local social 19 services district; and 20 (6) the poverty rate of each local social services district. 21 (ii) Local social services districts shall be required to implement 22 such regional cost factors for child care services to incentivize such 23 operation of child care providers or child care centers. 24 (iii) The office shall complete such analysis of the regional cost 25 factors and produce what cost factors for each region would be for the 26 following year, not later than one year after the effective date of this 27 paragraph. 28 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13894-02-4