STATE OF NEW YORK
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6643
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 19, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the distribution
of food stamp applications to emergency feeding programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
2 95-b to read as follows:
3 § 95-b. Food stamp applications at emergency feeding programs. 1. The
4 commissioner shall arrange for the distribution of applications for the
5 food stamp program to all state-funded emergency feeding programs. For
6 purposes of this section, "emergency feeding program" means a food
7 pantry or soup kitchen.
8 2. Beginning January first, two thousand twenty-six, and on the first
9 business day of each succeeding calendar quarter thereafter, the commis-
10 sioner shall submit a report to the governor and the legislature indi-
11 cating the emergency feeding programs to which it distributed applica-
12 tions in the prior calendar quarter and the number of applications
13 distributed to each emergency feeding program.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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