New York 2025 Session Status: Enacted

A9482 — Requires local social services districts to provide luggage to children in foster care

Last action — Signed by Governor

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 07, 2026. Enacted.

Signed by Governor Kathy Hochul (Democratic) on February 13, 2026.

Prognosis

Advancing 50% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

How often bills like it became law.

  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

Prognosis reads this bill's own signals — stage, sponsorship breadth, committee status, recorded votes and cross-state momentum. Odds come from a model trained on which bills have become law.

Summary

Requires the local social services districts to provide luggage to children in foster care; provides that eligible expenditures for such luggage shall be subject to state reimbursement under the foster care block grant.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. SIGNED CHAP.26

  2. DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

  3. RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

  4. PASSED SENATE

  5. 3RD READING CAL.78

  6. SUBSTITUTED FOR S8791

  7. REFERRED TO RULES

  8. DELIVERED TO SENATE

  9. PASSED ASSEMBLY

  10. ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.33

  11. RULES REPORT CAL.33

  12. REPORTED

  13. REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES

  14. REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

  15. REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 218 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (218)

218 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Frequently asked questions

What does A9482 do?
Requires the local social services districts to provide luggage to children in foster care; provides that eligible expenditures for such luggage shall be subject to state reimbursement under the foster care block grant.
Who sponsors A9482?
A9482 is sponsored by Andrew Hevesi.
What is the current status of A9482?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 07, 2026. Enacted.
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