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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6227
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 6, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues
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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