Bill Text: NY A08516 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows certain non-public schools to be exempt from being required to provide menstrual products in the restrooms of school buildings, upon a demonstration to the commissioner of education that the school does not serve students who need such products, and that such products are otherwise available to students who might need them.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-23 - substituted by s8092 [A08516 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08516-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8516

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 4, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  allowing  certain
          non-public  schools  to  be  exempt  from  being  required  to provide
          menstrual products in the restrooms of school buildings

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 267 of the public health law, as amended by a chap-
     2  ter  of  the  laws  of  2023  amending the public health law relating to
     3  providing menstrual products  in  non-public  schools,  as  proposed  in
     4  legislative  bills numbers S. 5913-A and A. 113-A, is amended to read as
     5  follows:
     6    § 267.  Menstrual products in schools. 1. All elementary and secondary
     7  public schools and non-public schools in the state serving  students  in
     8  any  grade  from  grade six through grade twelve shall provide menstrual
     9  products in the restrooms of such school  building  or  buildings.  Such
    10  products shall be provided at no charge to students.
    11    2.  A  non-public school may be granted an exemption from the require-
    12  ments of subdivision one of this section upon a demonstration sufficient
    13  to the commissioner of education that the school does not serve students
    14  who need such products and that menstrual products are  available  in  a
    15  manner  that  ensures the privacy of any student seeking them within the
    16  school building or buildings, including but not limited  to  within  any
    17  gender-neutral  restroom.  Such  exemption  may  be  revoked  should the
    18  circumstances change on which the exemption is granted.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    20  manner  as  a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the public health law
    21  relating to providing  menstrual  products  in  non-public  schools,  as
    22  proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  S. 5913-A and A. 113-A, takes
    23  effect. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of
    24  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on
    25  its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or  before
    26  such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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