S 918: Requires lead testing of children participating in the WIC program.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 918 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAY -- 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 lead testing of participants in WIC programs The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 1370-f to read as follows: 3 § 1370-f. Lead testing of child participants in WIC programs. The 4 department shall require that all children participants in the special 5 supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC program) 6 authorized by 42 U.S.C. § 1786 shall receive lead testing at the inter- 7 vals and using the methods specified by the department in this title. 8 Federal funds provided for administration of the WIC program shall not 9 be used to implement or administer the provisions of this section. Fund- 10 ing, to the extent permitted by federal law, shall be made available 11 through medical assistance for needy persons under title eleven of arti- 12 cle five of the social services law. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 14 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03091-01-5