A 2714: Provides an additional monthly public assistance allowance of $15 for menstrual products, including but not limited to, tampons, sanitary napkins, cups and panty liners.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2714 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 22, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing an additional monthly allowance for menstrual products under public assistance The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 131-a of the social services law 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows: 3 (f) an additional fifteen dollars per month for the purchase of 4 menstrual products, including but not limited to, tampons, sanitary 5 napkins, cups and panty liners. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04668-02-5