Provides that the commissioner of education may promulgate rules and regulations for a health education curriculum to include menstrual disorders, including but not limited to, endometriosis.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A7557
SPONSOR: Kassay TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to including menstrual
disorders in the health education curriculum in public schools
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
The purpose of this bill is to increase awareness and education about
menstrual disorders, particularly endometriosis, which impacts roughly 1
in 10 women.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Adds Section 804-e to the education law, giving power to the
commissioner to promulgate rules and regulations for instruction on
menstrual disorders, including endometriosis, and guidance on what
curriculum should cover.
Section 2. Establishes the enacting clause.
JUSTIFICATION:
The purpose of this bill is to increase awareness for endometriosis and
other menstrual disorders impacting women which are often overlooked.
Endometriosis is a condition that causes extra tissue growth around the
uterus and often leads to infertility, impacting roughly 1 in 10 women
in America. However, despite the large number of people impacted by this
disorder, it often gets overlooked or misdiagnosed by medical profes-
sionals and the average time to diagnosis is 7-10 years'. Many are
unaware endometriosis exists. This bill aims to increase awareness by
giving the Commissioner of Education the power to create health curric-
ulum instruction covering menstrual disorders and provides general guid-
ance on what curriculum should include, like the importance of menstrual
health.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date
on which it shall have become a law.
1 https://www.endofound.org/endometriosis-a-to-z.
2 https://www.whointinews-room/fact-sheets/detailiendometriosis
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7557
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 1, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. KASSAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to including menstrual
disorders in the health education curriculum in public schools
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 804-e
2 to read as follows:
3 § 804-e. Health education; menstrual disorders. The commissioner may
4 promulgate rules and regulations for a health education curriculum to
5 include instruction regarding menstrual disorders, including but not
6 limited to, endometriosis. The contents of such curriculum may include
7 information regarding the timing, signs and symptoms of endometriosis
8 and other menstrual disorders; the importance of menstrual health and
9 its impacts on one's physical, emotional, social, and academic life;
10 basic statistics on endometriosis and other menstrual disorders; best
11 practices on how to be one's own healthcare advocate; basic treatment
12 options for endometriosis and other menstrual disorders; and other
13 information deemed necessary by the commissioner.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
15 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.
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