STATE OF NEW YORK
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5913--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 22, 2023
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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
