Bill Text: NY A02872 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2872

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to authorizing the payment of costs, up to eighty dollars, of diapers for an eligible child two years of age or younger for children receiving safety net assistance.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A02872 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02872-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2872

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SOLAGES,  SAYEGH,  CRUZ, EICHENSTEIN, SIMON,
          LAVINE, TAYLOR, L. ROSENTHAL, GLICK, EPSTEIN -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  allowances  for
          the costs of diapers

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 350 of the social services law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c)  In  accordance with the regulations of the department approved by
     4  the director of the budget, allowances granted under the  provisions  of
     5  this  title  may include the costs of diapers for an eligible child, two
     6  years of age  or  younger.  Said  allowances  shall  not  exceed  eighty
     7  dollars, every three months, per eligible child.
     8    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
     9  the date on which it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04174-01-3