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A2428 • 2025

Requires that free menstrual products be provided in the bathrooms of private colleges and universities

Requires that free menstrual products be provided in the bathrooms of private colleges and universities

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Sponsor
Linda Rosenthal
Last action
2026-06-02
Official status
Assembly Floor Calendar
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires that free menstrual products be provided in the bathrooms of private colleges and universities

Requires that free menstrual products be provided in the bathrooms of private colleges and universities Requires that free menstrual products be provided in the commonly used bathrooms of private universities.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires that free menstrual products be provided in the bathrooms of private colleges and universities Requires that free menstrual products be provided in the commonly used bathrooms of private universities.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-06-02 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES

  2. 2026-06-02 Assembly

    REPORTED

  3. 2026-06-02 Assembly

    RULES REPORT CAL.332

  4. 2026-06-02 Assembly

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.332

  5. 2026-06-02 Assembly

    SUBSTITUTED BY S4692

  6. 2026-06-01 Assembly

    REFERENCE CHANGED TO WAYS AND MEANS

  7. 2026-05-12 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES

  8. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

  9. 2025-01-16 Assembly

    REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

Official Summary Text

Requires that free menstrual products be provided in the bathrooms of private colleges and universities
Requires that free menstrual products be provided in the commonly used bathrooms of private universities.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2428

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    January 16, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  providing  free
          menstrual  products in the restrooms of private colleges and universi-
          ties

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  267-c to read as follows:
     3    § 267-C. MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS IN PRIVATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.  ALL
     4  PRIVATE  COLLEGES  AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE STATE SHALL PROVIDE MENSTRUAL
     5  PRODUCTS IN THE RESTROOMS OF SUCH SCHOOL  BUILDING  OR  BUILDINGS.  SUCH
     6  PRODUCTS SHALL BE PROVIDED AT NO CHARGE TO STUDENTS.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05702-01-5