Bill Text: NY A00686 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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 47-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A00686 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00686-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 686 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, LUPARDO, PHEFFER AMATO, PEOPLES-STOKES, DE LA ROSA, SEAWRIGHT, JAFFEE, SIMOTAS, SIMON, ARROYO, JEAN-PIERRE, LIFTON, WRIGHT, TITUS, RICHARDSON, NIOU, WILLIAMS, GUNTHER, DAVILA, JOYNER, SOLAGES, HUNTER, GLICK, HYNDMAN, WALKER, PAULIN, GOTTFRIED, BLAKE, COLTON, M. G. MILLER, CRESPO, RIVERA, DILAN, AUBRY, STECK, PICHARDO, BARRON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, DICKENS, ENGLEBRIGHT, EPSTEIN, GALEF, M. L. MILLER, WALLACE, WALSH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services 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. LBD00519-01-9