Bill Text: NY S05910 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires menstrual products in all public college and university buildings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-05 - SUBSTITUTED BY A4060A [S05910 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05910-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         5910--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 22, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues  --  recom-
          mitted  to  the  Committee on Women's Issues in accordance with Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and recommitted to said committee -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring menstru-
          al products in public colleges and universities

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

     1    Section 1. Title 6 of article 2 of the public health law is amended by
     2  adding a new section 267-b to read as follows:
     3    §  267-b.  Menstrual products in public colleges and universities. All
     4  public colleges and universities in the state  shall  provide  menstrual
     5  products  in  the  restrooms  of such school building or buildings. Such
     6  products shall be provided at no charge to students.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03087-06-4
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