STATE OF NEW YORK
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8543
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
October 22, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing the
department of health to establish and maintain a menopause informa-
tional and resource webpage on the department website
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 266 of the public health law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. Menopause. In accordance with this section, the commissioner shall
4 establish informational materials and resources, no later than one
5 hundred eighty days after the effective date of this subdivision, which
6 shall include, but not be limited to: (a) stages of menopause; which
7 include perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause; (b) treatment and
8 management care for perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause; and (c)
9 symptoms and physical complications associated with perimenopause, meno-
10 pause or postmenopause.
11 § 2. 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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