Bill Text: NY S08229 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Replaces all instances of the words or variations of the words feminine hygiene products and sanitary napkins with the words menstrual products or pads, respectively, or a variation thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-29 - PRINT NUMBER 8229A [S08229 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08229-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8229--A

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 7, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, the public health law  and  the  tax
          law, in relation to replacing all instances of the words or variations
          of  the  words feminine hygiene products and sanitary napkins with the
          words menstrual products and pads, respectively, or a variation there-
          of

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 625 of the correction law, as added by chapter 392
     2  of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 625.  [Feminine  hygiene]  Menstrual  products.  [Feminine  hygiene]
     4  Menstrual  products,  including,  but not limited to, [sanitary napkins]
     5  pads, tampons and panty liners, shall be provided at no cost to individ-
     6  uals housed in state and local  correctional  facilities  used  for  the
     7  general  confinement of [female inmates] incarcerated individuals and in
     8  any other state or local facility where [women] incarcerated individuals
     9  are detained or confined by law enforcement agencies.
    10    § 2. Section 267 of the public health law, as added by  section  1  of
    11  part Q of chapter 56 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
    12    § 267. [Feminine hygiene] Menstrual products in schools. All elementa-
    13  ry  and  secondary  public  schools in the state serving students in any
    14  grade from grade  six  through  grade  twelve  shall  provide  [feminine
    15  hygiene]  menstrual products in the restrooms of such school building or
    16  buildings. Such products shall be provided at no charge to students.
    17    § 3. Paragraph 3-a of subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax  law,
    18  as  added  by  chapter  99  of  the  laws of 2016, is amended to read as
    19  follows:
    20    (3-a) [Feminine hygiene] Menstrual products, including, but not limit-
    21  ed to, [sanitary napkins] pads, tampons and panty liners.
    22    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11945-06-2