S8584 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Requires that any electronic benefit transfer services for special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC) benefits shall ensure that two electronic benefit transfer credit or debit cards are issued for use by any recipient household where such additional household member is either a parent, guardian or caretaker of the covered infant or a spouse, domestic partner or parent of the covered mother.
- Title
- Requires that two electronic benefit transfer credit or debit cards be available to certain households receiving special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC) benefits
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-05-13
- In committee
- Finance
- Introduced
- 2025-11-17
- Same as
- A8938
- Law section
- Public Health Law
Sponsors
- Roxanne J. Persaud State Senator, District 19
Co-sponsors
Heard in committee
- Finance NY State Senate committee
- Rules NY State Senate committee
- Women's Issues NY State Senate committee
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Women's Issues, 2026-05-13 Referred to committee; referred to Finance