Bill Text: NY A04071 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides access to menstrual products in toilet facilities in public buildings determined to be opened to the public; requires reporting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-30 - ordered to third reading rules cal.237 [A04071 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04071-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4071--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        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.
                                                                   LBD07734-04-4
        A. 4071--B                          2

     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.