STATE OF NEW YORK
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4071--B
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 9, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, SIMON, GALLAGHER, GLICK, SHIMSKY,
REYES, CRUZ, LEVENBERG, TAYLOR, RAGA, DE LOS SANTOS, WALKER -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --
recommitted to the Committee on Governmental Operations in accordance
with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public buildings law, in relation to providing
access to menstrual products in toilet facilities in certain public
buildings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public buildings law is amended by adding a new section
2 148 to read as follows:
3 § 148. Access to menstrual products in toilet facilities. 1. Menstrual
4 products shall be provided at no cost, including, but not limited to,
5 sanitary napkins, tampons and panty liners in all female-designated and
6 gender-neutral washrooms and toilet facilities in every covered public
7 building.
8 2. Two years after the effective date of this section the commissioner
9 of general services shall report to the governor and both houses of the
10 legislature the following information including but not limited to:
11 i. the number of toilet facilities this section applies to;
12 ii. the cost of implementing the requirements of this section;
13 iii. the number of toilet facilities that required renovation to
14 implement the requirements of this section;
15 iv. the total number of menstrual products purchased by the state, in
16 relation to the implementation of this section, in the prior year; and
17 v. the total cost to the state to implement the requirements of this
18 section.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 3. For the purposes of this section "covered public building" shall
2 mean a public building as defined in section two of this chapter, that
3 is determined by the commissioner of general services to be open to the
4 public. For purposes of this section "covered public building" shall not
5 mean any state university of New York buildings, city university of New
6 York buildings, or any buildings owned or leased by a school district.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
8 law.
