Bill Text: NY S03472 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires feminine hygiene products to be offered for free in non-public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-24 - referred to ways and means [S03472 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S03472-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3472 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 29, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BIAGGI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing feminine hygiene products in non-public schools 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 added by section 1 2 of part Q of chapter 56 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 § 267. Feminine hygiene products in schools. All elementary and 5 secondary public schools and non-public schools in the state serving 6 students in any grade from grade six through grade twelve shall provide 7 feminine hygiene products in the restrooms of such school building or 8 buildings. Such products shall be provided at no charge to students. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 10 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02854-03-1