Bill Text: NY A00585 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to providing feminine hygiene products at no cost to menstruating individuals in homeless shelters, including, but not limited to, sanitary napkins, tampons and panty liners.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 48-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A00585 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00585-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         585--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 9, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL,  LUPARDO,  HARRIS, PHEFFER AMATO,
          PEOPLES-STOKES, DE LA ROSA, SEAWRIGHT, JAFFEE, SIMOTAS, SIMON,  JENNE,
          ARROYO,   JEAN-PIERRE,   LIFTON,   WRIGHT,  TITUS,  RICHARDSON,  NIOU,
          WILLIAMS, GUNTHER, HOOPER, DAVILA,  JOYNER,  SOLAGES,  HUNTER,  GLICK,
          GOTTFRIED,  BLAKE, PAULIN, COLTON, M. G. MILLER, GJONAJ, CRESPO, BRIN-
          DISI, KEARNS, RIVERA, HYNDMAN, WALKER,  DILAN,  MAYER,  AUBRY,  STECK,
          PICHARDO,  BARRON  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. COOK, DICKENS,
          ENGLEBRIGHT, GALEF, M. L. MILLER, WALLACE, WALSH,  WEINSTEIN  --  read
          once  and  referred  to  the Committee on Social Services -- 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.  Except  in  a  social  services
     4  district  with  a  population  of  five million or more, any provider of
     5  temporary housing assistance, which shall include but not be limited to,
     6  a family shelter, a shelter for adults, a hotel, an emergency apartment,
     7  a domestic violence shelter, a runaway and homeless youth shelter, or  a
     8  safe  house  for refugees, shall be required to provide feminine hygiene
     9  products, including, but not limited to, sanitary napkins,  tampons  and
    10  panty liners, at no cost to menstruating individuals.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01937-02-7