---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requires social services districts to maintain a waiting list of families who have applied for child care assistance and data regarding the income of such families"
description: "Requires each social services district to maintain a waiting list of eligible families who have applied for child care assistance; requires the local districts to report such list to the office of children and family services who shall then compile such reports and issue one report to the legislature annually; requires the social services districts to collect data regarding the income of families who have applied, were denied and received child care assistance and issue a report to the office of children and family services who shall then compile such reports and issue one report to the legislature annually."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 1926"
citation: "New York S 1926 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roxanne J. Persaud"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-12-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ddd29cf-3052-44f3-bbea-01f8d4c7eb4c"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S1926"
source_hash: "56d05e9a12879bf01c8e15d858fcb8e789c7d1c0059c2f7afc7ba0018d1da814"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 1926 (2025-2026) — Requires social services districts to maintain a waiting list of families who have applied for child care assistance and data regarding the income of such families

Requires each social services district to maintain a waiting list of eligible families who have applied for child care assistance; requires the local districts to report such list to the office of children and family services who shall then compile such reports and issue one report to the legislature annually; requires the social services districts to collect data regarding the income of families who have applied, were denied and received child care assistance and issue a report to the office of children and family services who shall then compile such reports and issue one report to the legislature annually.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S1926** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S1926&term=2025&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Children And Families Vote — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **143–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **57–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Roxanne J. Persaud — primary (person)
- Brian Kavanagh — cosponsor (person)
- Lea Webb — cosponsor (person)
- Luis R. Sepúlveda — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-14** REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** 1ST REPORT CAL.130
- **2025-01-22** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2025-01-27** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2025-03-19** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-03-19** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-03-19** REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7145
- **2025-05-21** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.229
- **2025-05-21** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-05-21** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-12-08** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-12-19** SIGNED CHAP.676 `executive-signature`
- **2025-12-19** APPROVAL MEMO.57

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ddd29cf-3052-44f3-bbea-01f8d4c7eb4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).