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
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