S 6137: Provides funds for day care services for the children of persons 24 and under to enable such persons to continue secondary and post-secondary education; provides criteria to be governed by standards established for economically and educationally disadvantaged students under special opportunity programs for state and city universities; appropriates $5,600,000 to the office of children and family services therefor.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6137 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 5, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to day care services and making an appropriation therefor The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 410 of the social services law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows: 3 3-a. Day care under this title shall also mean and include day care 4 programs providing care for the children of persons twenty-four years of 5 age or younger, to enable such persons to continue secondary and post- 6 secondary education. The criteria for such day care eligibility shall be 7 determined according to the financial criteria promulgated pursuant to 8 section sixty-four hundred fifty-two of the education law governing 9 financial aid to educational opportunity programs and students. 10 § 2. The sum of five million six hundred thousand dollars 11 ($5,600,000), or so much thereof as shall be necessary, is hereby appro- 12 priated to the office of children and family services from any moneys in 13 the general fund to the credit of the local assistance account, not 14 otherwise appropriated, to be used for reimbursement of start-up funds 15 and operating expenses, including personal service, of day care programs 16 providing care for the children of persons twenty-four years of age or 17 younger, to enable such persons to continue secondary and post-secondary 18 education. Such moneys shall be distributed, upon request therefor, 19 through local social services districts as provided in subdivision 3-a 20 of section 410 of the social services law, and shall be payable upon the 21 audit and warrant of the state comptroller on vouchers certified or 22 approved by the commissioner of the office of children and family 23 services or his or her duly designated representative as provided by 24 law. 25 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02365-01-5