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| 1 | 1 | <STYLE><!--U {color: Green}S {color: RED} I {color: DARKBLUE; background-color:yellow} P.brk {page-break-before:always}--></STYLE> <BASEFONT SIZE=3> <PRE WIDTH="99"> <FONT SIZE=5><B> STATE OF NEW YORK</B></FONT> ________________________________________________________________________ 3866--A 2025-2026 Regular Sessions <FONT SIZE=5><B> IN SENATE</B></FONT> January 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HINCHEY, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues -- committee discharged, bill amended, 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 <B><U>The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-</U></B> <B><U>bly, do enact as follows:</U></B> 1 Section 1. The public buildings law is amended by adding a new section 2 148 to read as follows: 3 <B><U>§ 148. Access to menstrual products in toilet facilities. 1. Menstrual</U></B> 4 <B><U>products shall be provided at no cost, including, but not limited to,</U></B> 5 <B><U>sanitary napkins, tampons and panty liners in all female-designated and</U></B> 6 <B><U>gender-neutral washrooms and toilet facilities in every covered public</U></B> 7 <B><U>building.</U></B> 8 <B><U>2. Two years after the effective date of this section the commissioner</U></B> 9 <B><U>of general services shall report to the governor and both houses of the</U></B> 10 <B><U>legislature the following information including but not limited to:</U></B> 11 <B><U>i. the number of toilet facilities this section applies to;</U></B> 12 <B><U>ii. the cost of implementing the requirements of this section;</U></B> 13 <B><U>iii. the number of toilet facilities that required renovation to</U></B> 14 <B><U>implement the requirements of this section;</U></B> 15 <B><U>iv. the total number of menstrual products purchased by the state, in</U></B> 16 <B><U>relation to the implementation of this section, in the prior year; and</U></B> 17 <B><U>v. the total cost to the state to implement the requirements of this</U></B> 18 <B><U>section.</U></B> 19 <B><U>3. For the purposes of this section "covered public building" shall</U></B> 20 <B><U>mean a public building owned by the state of New York, under the super-</U></B> 21 <B><U>vision and control of the commissioner of general services, that is</U></B> 22 <B><U>determined by such commissioner to be open to the public.</U></B> 23 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 24 law. EXPLANATION--Matter in <B><U>italics</U></B> (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [<B><S> </S></B>] is old law to be omitted. LBD04458-02-5 |