Bill Text: NY S09184 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides access to menstrual products in toilet facilities in public buildings determined to be opened to the public; requires reporting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-06 - PRINT NUMBER 9184A [S09184 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09184-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9184--A

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 2, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public  buildings  law,  in  relation  to  providing
          access  to  menstrual  products in toilet facilities in certain public
          buildings

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

     1    Section 1. The public buildings law is amended by adding a new section
     2  148 to read as follows:
     3    § 148. Access to menstrual products in toilet facilities. 1. Menstrual
     4  products  shall  be  provided at no cost, including, but not limited to,
     5  sanitary napkins, tampons and panty liners in all female-designated  and
     6  gender-neutral  washrooms  and toilet facilities in every covered public
     7  building.
     8    2. Two years after the effective date of this section the commissioner
     9  of general services shall report to the governor and both houses of  the
    10  legislature the following information including but not limited to:
    11    i. the number of toilet facilities this section applies to;
    12    ii. the cost of implementing the requirements of this section;
    13    iii.  the  number  of  toilet  facilities  that required renovation to
    14  implement the requirements of this section;
    15    iv. the total number of menstrual products purchased by the state,  in
    16  relation to the implementation of this section, in the prior year; and
    17    v.  the  total cost to the state to implement the requirements of this
    18  section.
    19    3. For the purposes of this section "covered  public  building"  shall
    20  mean  a  public building as defined in section two of this chapter, that
    21  is determined by the commissioner of general services to be open to  the
    22  public. For purposes of this section "covered public building" shall not
    23  mean  any state university of New York buildings, city university of New
    24  York buildings, or any buildings owned or leased by a school district.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    26  law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07734-05-4