Bill Text: NY A07777 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


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 - Dead) 2022-05-10 - reported referred to ways and means [A07777 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07777-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         7777--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 21, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Social Services -- recommitted to the Committee on Social
          Services in accordance with Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  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 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.
                                                                   LBD11368-03-2
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