STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 529--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, LUPARDO, PHEFFER AMATO, PEOPLES-STOKES, DE LA ROSA, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, JEAN-PIERRE, RICHARDSON, NIOU, WILLIAMS, GUNTHER, DAVILA, JOYNER, SOLAGES, HUNTER, GLICK, HYND- MAN, WALKER, PAULIN, DARLING, CRUZ, FERNANDEZ, GRIFFIN, GOTTFRIED, J. RIVERA, DILAN, AUBRY, STECK, PICHARDO, BARRON, COLTON, ZINERMAN, OTIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, DICKENS, ENGLEBRIGHT, EPSTEIN, GALEF, M. MILLER, WALLACE, WALSH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing femi- nine hygiene products at no cost to adults and children receiving temporary housing assistance The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section 2 152-c to read as follows: 3 § 152-c. Feminine hygiene products. Any provider of temporary housing 4 assistance, which shall include but not be limited to, a family shelter, 5 a shelter for adults, a hotel, an emergency apartment, a domestic 6 violence shelter, a runaway and homeless youth shelter, or a safe house 7 for refugees, shall be required to provide feminine hygiene products, 8 including, but not limited to, sanitary napkins, tampons and panty 9 liners, at no cost to menstruating individuals. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00338-02-1