Assembly Bill A2872

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to allowances for the costs of diapers

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    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A2872 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1210
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §350, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7809
2017-2018: A5973, S1318
2019-2020: A2567, S1086
2021-2022: A3451, S63

2023-A2872 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2023-A2872 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2872
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SOLAGES,  SAYEGH,  CRUZ, EICHENSTEIN, SIMON,
   LAVINE, TAYLOR, L. ROSENTHAL, GLICK, EPSTEIN -- 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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 350 of the social services law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
   (C)  IN  ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT APPROVED BY
 THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUDGET, ALLOWANCES GRANTED UNDER THE  PROVISIONS  OF
 THIS  TITLE  MAY INCLUDE THE COSTS OF DIAPERS FOR AN ELIGIBLE CHILD, TWO
 YEARS OF AGE  OR  YOUNGER.  SAID  ALLOWANCES  SHALL  NOT  EXCEED  EIGHTY
 DOLLARS, EVERY THREE MONTHS, PER ELIGIBLE CHILD.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
 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.
                                                            LBD04174-01-3

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