2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-C - Block Grant for Child Care › 410-U - Establishment of Block Grant for Child Care.

§  410-u.  Establishment  of  block  grant  for  child  care.  1.  The
  department shall establish a state block grant for child care  comprised
  of all of the federal funds appropriated for child care under title IV-A
  of  the federal social security act and under the federal child care and
  development block grant act and any additional federal  funds  that  the
  state  chooses  to  transfer from the federal family assistance to needy
  families block grant to the child care and development block grant  plus
  any  state  funds  appropriated  for  the  provision  by social services
  districts of child care assistance to  families  in  receipt  of  family
  assistance  and other low income families and for activities to increase
  the availability and/or quality of child care programs.
2. The state block grant for child care  shall  be  divided  into  two
  parts pursuant to a plan developed by the department and approved by the
  director  of  the  budget.  One  part  shall be retained by the state to
  provide child care on a  statewide  basis  to  special  groups  and  for
  activities  to  increase  the  availability and/or quality of child care
  programs, including, but not limited to,  the  start-up  of  child  care
  programs,  the  operation  of child care resource and referral programs,
  training  activities,  the  regulation  and  monitoring  of  child  care
  programs,  the  development  of  computerized data systems, and consumer
  education, provided however,  that  child  care  resource  and  referral
  programs  funded under title five-B of article six of this chapter shall
  meet additional performance standards developed  by  the  department  of
  social  services  including but not limited to: increasing the number of
  child care placements for  persons  who  are  at  or  below  eighty-five
  percent  of  the  state  median  income,  with  emphasis  on  placements
  supporting local efforts in meeting federal and state work participation
  requirements, increasing technical assistance to all modalities of legal
  child care to persons who are at or below  eighty-five  percent  of  the
  state  median  income,  including  the  provision  of training to assist
  providers in meeting child care standards  or  regulatory  requirements,
  and creating new child care opportunities, and assisting social services
  districts in assessing and responding to child care needs for persons at
  or  below eighty-five percent of the state median income. The department
  shall have the authority to withhold funds from those agencies which  do
  not  meet  performance  standards. Agencies whose funds are withheld may
  have funds restored upon achieving performance standards. The other part
  shall be allocated to social services districts to  provide  child  care
  assistance  to  families  receiving  family  assistance and to other low
  income families.
3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, expenditures  of  funds
  from the block grant shall be governed by this title.