Bill Text: NY S00063 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-10 - referred to ways and means [S00063 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00063-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          63--B
            Cal. No. 847

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens. PERSAUD, ADDABBO, BAILEY, BIAGGI, BRISPORT, BROUK,
          CLEARE, GAUGHRAN, GOUNARDES, KRUEGER, MANNION, MYRIE,  RAMOS,  RIVERA,
          STAVISKY  --  read  twice  and ordered printed, and when printed to be
          committed to the Committee on Children and Families -- reported favor-
          ably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Chil-
          dren and Families Senate Rule 6, sec. 8  --  reported  favorably  from
          said  committee  and committed to the Committee on Finance -- reported
          favorably from said committee, ordered to  first  and  second  report,
          ordered  to  a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
          its place in the order of third reading

        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.
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