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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2872
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2023
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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:
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.
LBD04174-01-3
