Bill Text: NY K00496 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim September 23-29, 2019, as Diaper Need Awareness Week in the State of New York

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 35-14)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-05 - adopted [K00496 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-K00496-Introduced.html

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Assembly Resolution No. 496

BY: M. of A. Magnarelli

        MEMORIALIZING Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim
        September 23-29, 2019, as Diaper Need Awareness Week
        in the State of New York

  WHEREAS,  Diaper  Need,  the  condition  of  not having a sufficient
supply of clean diapers to ensure that infants and toddlers  are  clean,
healthy and dry, can adversely affect the health and welfare of infants,
toddlers and their families; and

  WHEREAS,   National   surveys  report  that  one  in  three  mothers
experience diaper need at some time while their children are  less  than
three years of age and 48 percent of families delay changing a diaper to
extend their supply; and

  WHEREAS,  The  average  infant  or toddler requires an average of 50
diaper changes per week over three years; and

  WHEREAS, Diapers cannot be bought with food stamps or WIC  vouchers,
and  a sufficient supply of diapers can cost as much as six percent of a
full-time minimum wage worker's salary, therefore obtaining a sufficient
supply of diapers can cause economic hardship to families; and

  WHEREAS, A supply of diapers is generally an eligibility requirement
for infants and  toddlers  to  participate  in  childcare  programs  and
quality early education programs; and

  WHEREAS,  The  people  of  New York recognize that addressing Diaper
Need can  lead  to  economic  opportunity  for  the  state's  low-income
families  and  can  lead  to  improved  health  for  families  and their
communities; and

  WHEREAS,  New  York  is  proud  to  be  home  to  various  community
organizations  including:  the  Central New York Diaper Bank, the Allied
Foundation of Melville,  Good  Plus  Foundation  of  NYC,  Every  Bottom
Covered  of  Buffalo,  the Junior League of Central Westchester, Kids in
Need of Diapers Project of Owego, Little Essentials of NYC,  NYC  Mammas
Give  Back, ROC City Bottoms Diaper Bank of Rochester, the Food Pantries
of Albany, the HopeLine of the Bronx and Things of My Very Own, Inc.  of
Schenectady  that recognize the importance of diapers in helping provide
economic stability for families and distribute diapers to poor  families
through various channels; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED,  That  this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
memorialize Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim September 23-29,  2019,
as  Diaper  Need  Awareness  Week  in  the  State of New York; and be it
further

  RESOLVED, That a copy of this  Resolution,  suitably  engrossed,  be
transmitted  to  The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of the State of
New York.