Directs the commissioner of health to establish a method by which alternative identification can be presented at a point of sale when a recipient under the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children does not have his or her WIC's identification in his or her possession.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6515
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 30, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. PERALTA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing the
commissioner of health to establish an alternative form of identifica-
tion for utilization of the special supplemental nutrition program for
women, infants and children
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 206 of the public health law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (w) to read as follows:
3 (w) by rule and regulation, establish a method by which an alternative
4 form of identification which may be shown at the point of sale at which
5 checks or vouchers issued under the special supplemental nutrition
6 program for women, infants and children may be utilized, in the event a
7 recipient of such program does not have the identification issued pursu-
8 ant to the program in his or her possession.
9 § 2. This act shall take affect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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