S 179: 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 ________________________________________________________________________ 179 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. PERSAUD, BROUK, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families 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. LBD00836-01-5