S4692 • 2025

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

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Sponsor: Cordell Cleare
Last action: 2026-06-02
Official status: Passed Assembly
Effective date: Not listed

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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.

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Bill History

2026-06-02 Assembly
SUBSTITUTED FOR A2428
2026-06-02 Assembly
ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.332
2026-06-02 Assembly
PASSED ASSEMBLY
2026-06-02 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2026-03-10 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-03-10 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-03-10 Assembly
REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION
2026-02-04 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-02-03 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-01-29 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.206
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES
2025-05-20 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2025-02-11 Senate
REFERRED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES

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
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4692

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    February 11, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues

        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