Bill Text: NY S05913 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires menstrual products to be offered for free in non-public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-11-17 - APPROVAL MEMO.31 [S05913 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S05913-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5913--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 22, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. CHU, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing menstru- al 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] Menstrual products in schools. All elementa- 5 ry and secondary public schools and non-public schools in the state 6 serving students in any grade from grade six through grade twelve shall 7 provide [feminine hygiene] menstrual products in the restrooms of such 8 school building or buildings. Such products shall be provided at no 9 charge to students. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 11 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. LBD01363-02-3
