§ 410-Y — Maintenance of effort

§ 410-y. Maintenance of effort. 1. Each social services district shall\nmaintain the amount of local funds spent for child care assistance under\nthe child care block grant at a level equal to or greater than the\namount the district spent for child care assistance during federal\nfiscal year nineteen hundred ninety-five under title IV-A of the federal\nsocial security act, the federal child care development block grant\nprogram and the state low income child care program; provided however, a\nsocial services district for a city of a population of a million or more\nshall spend local funds for child care assistance at an amount no less\nthan three hundred twenty-eight million dollars.\n 2. If the state fails to meet the level of state and local child care\nfunding necessary to maintain the federal matching funds for child care\nassistance available under title IV-a of the federal social security\nact, the state shall withhold funding from those social services\ndistricts which spent a lower amount of local funds for child care\nassistance than the amount required by subdivision one of this section,\nbased on a formula established in department regulations, equal to the\namount of the matching funds which have been lost.\n