S8543 • 2025

Directs the department of health to establish and maintain a menopause informational and resource webpage on the department website

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Sponsor: Lea Webb
Last action: 2026-06-02
Official status: Senate Floor Calendar
Effective date: Not listed

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Directs the department of health to establish and maintain a menopause informational and resource webpage on the department website

Directs the department of health to establish and maintain a menopause informational and resource webpage on the department website Directs the department of health to establish and maintain a menopause informational and resource webpage on the department website.

What This Bill Does

Directs the department of health to establish and maintain a menopause informational and resource webpage on the department website Directs the department of health to establish and maintain a menopause informational and resource webpage on the department website.

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Bill History

2026-06-02 Senate
SUBSTITUTED BY A9304
2026-05-27 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-26 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-21 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1320
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES
2025-10-22 Senate
REFERRED TO RULES

Official Summary Text

Directs the department of health to establish and maintain a menopause informational and resource webpage on the department website
Directs the department of health to establish and maintain a menopause informational and resource webpage on the department website.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          8543

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    October 22, 2025
                                       ___________

        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.
                                                                   LBD13794-01-5