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Home/Bills/A 1279New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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A 1279: Exempts aid derived from funding from childcare stabilization grants, childcare desert funding, or other non-recurring funding, issued by the office of children and family services to childcare providers from income for the purpose of determining aid provided pursuant to public assistance programs.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified February 4, 2026

What A 1279 does, verified February 4, 2026

The bill aims to exempt certain income from the calculation of aid provided under public assistance programs. This exemption applies to income derived from non-recurring funding, such as childcare stabilization grants, childcare desert funding, or other funding issued by the Office of Children and Family Services to childcare providers. This change is intended to support childcare providers who receive funding from these sources and may be struggling to make ends meet. The bill takes effect immediately and is deemed to have been in full force and effect on January 1, 2025.

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Last action: referred to social services (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jan. 07, 2026referred to social services
Jan. 09, 2025referred to social services
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 9, 2025 · 227 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1279 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to exempting certain income for the purpose of determining aid provided pursuant to public assistance programs The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of section 131-a of the 2 social services law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (xiv) to 3 read as follows: 4 (xiv) all of the income of a head of household or any person in the 5 household, who is receiving such aid or for whom an application for such 6 aid has been made, which is derived from funding from childcare stabili- 7 zation grants, childcare desert funding, or other non-recurring funding, 8 issued by the office of children and family services to childcare 9 providers. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to 11 have been in full force and effect on and after January 1, 2025. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02632-01-5 
Text of A 1279 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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