STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6723 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 13, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing the commissioner of health to establish an alternative form of identifica- tion for utilization of the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children 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 206 of the public health law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (w) to read as follows: 3 (w) by rule and regulation, establish a method by which an alternative 4 form of identification which may be shown at the point of sale at which 5 checks or vouchers issued under the special supplemental nutrition 6 program for women, infants and children may be utilized, in the event a 7 recipient of such program does not have the identification issued pursu- 8 ant to the program in his or her possession. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11410-01-1