Senate Bill S179

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to allowances for the costs of diapers

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Children And Families Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S179 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A405
Current Committee:
Senate Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §350, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7809
2017-2018: S1318, A5973
2019-2020: S1086, A2567
2021-2022: S63, A3451
2023-2024: S1210, A2872

2025-S179 (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.

2025-S179 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    179
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  PERSAUD, BROUK, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Children
   and Families
 
 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.
                                                            LBD00836-01-5

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