Cook, Dickens, Englebright, Epstein, Galef, Miller M, Wallace, Walsh
Add §152-c, Soc Serv L
Provides feminine hygiene products at no cost to menstruating individuals in homeless shelters, including, but not limited to, sanitary napkins, tampons and panty liners.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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529--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, LUPARDO, PHEFFER AMATO,
PEOPLES-STOKES, DE LA ROSA, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, JEAN-PIERRE, RICHARDSON,
NIOU, WILLIAMS, GUNTHER, DAVILA, JOYNER, SOLAGES, HUNTER, GLICK, HYND-
MAN, WALKER, PAULIN, DARLING, CRUZ, FERNANDEZ, GRIFFIN, GOTTFRIED,
J. RIVERA, DILAN, AUBRY, STECK, PICHARDO, BARRON, COLTON, ZINERMAN,
OTIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, DICKENS, ENGLEBRIGHT,
EPSTEIN, GALEF, M. MILLER, WALLACE, WALSH -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Social Services -- reported and referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing femi-
nine hygiene products at no cost to adults and children receiving
temporary housing assistance
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
2 152-c to read as follows:
3 § 152-c. Feminine hygiene products. Any provider of temporary housing
4 assistance, which shall include but not be limited to, a family shelter,
5 a shelter for adults, a hotel, an emergency apartment, a domestic
6 violence shelter, a runaway and homeless youth shelter, or a safe house
7 for refugees, shall be required to provide feminine hygiene products,
8 including, but not limited to, sanitary napkins, tampons and panty
9 liners, at no cost to menstruating individuals.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00338-02-1
