Bill Text: NY A00405 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 405

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) 2025-01-08 - referred to social services [A00405 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00405-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           405

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SOLAGES, SAYEGH, CRUZ, SIMON, LAVINE, TAYLOR,
          ROSENTHAL, GLICK, EPSTEIN, HEVESI, RAGA, FORREST, MAHER --  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.
                                                                   LBD00836-01-5