Bill Text: NY A01296 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Replaces all instances of the words or variations of the words feminine hygiene products and sanitary napkins with the words menstrual products or pads, respectively, or a variation thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-17 - substituted by s1522 [A01296 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01296-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1296

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, the public health law  and  the  tax
          law, in relation to replacing all instances of the words or variations
          of  the  words feminine hygiene products and sanitary napkins with the
          words menstrual products and pads, respectively, or a variation there-
          of

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  625 of the correction law, as amended by chapter
     2  486 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 625.  [Feminine  hygiene]  Menstrual  products.  [Feminine  hygiene]
     4  Menstrual  products,  including,  but not limited to, [sanitary napkins]
     5  pads, tampons and panty liners, shall be provided at no cost to individ-
     6  uals housed in state and local  correctional  facilities  used  for  the
     7  general  confinement  of  [female]  incarcerated  individuals and in any
     8  other state or local facility where [women] individuals are detained  or
     9  confined by law enforcement agencies.
    10    §  2.  Section  267 of the public health law, as added by section 1 of
    11  part Q of chapter 56 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
    12    § 267. [Feminine hygiene] Menstrual products in schools. All elementa-
    13  ry and secondary public schools in the state  serving  students  in  any
    14  grade  from  grade  six  through  grade  twelve  shall provide [feminine
    15  hygiene] menstrual products in the restrooms of such school building  or
    16  buildings. Such products shall be provided at no charge to students.
    17    §  3. Paragraph 3-a of subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law,
    18  as added by chapter 99 of the laws  of  2016,  is  amended  to  read  as
    19  follows:
    20    (3-a) [Feminine hygiene] Menstrual products, including, but not limit-
    21  ed to, [sanitary napkins] pads, tampons and panty liners.
    22    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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