Bill Text: NY A05502 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides an additional monthly public assistance allowance of $10 for menstrual products, including but not limited to, tampons, sanitary napkins, cups and panty liners.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to social services [A05502 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05502-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5502

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 15, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in  relation  to  providing  an
          additional  monthly  allowance  for  menstrual  products  under public
          assistance

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 5 of section 131-a of the social services law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
     3    (f) an additional ten dollars per month for the purchase of  menstrual
     4  products,  including but not limited to, tampons, sanitary napkins, cups
     5  and panty liners.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05570-01-3