STATE OF NEW YORK
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290
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing feminine
hygiene products in charter 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 products in schools. All elementary and
5 secondary public schools and charter schools in the state serving
6 students in any grade from grade six through grade twelve shall provide
7 feminine hygiene products in the restrooms of such school building or
8 buildings. Such products shall be provided at no charge to students.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02158-01-9