File #: Int 1058-2023    Version: Name: Educational materials on menstrual products.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Women and Gender Equity
On agenda: 5/25/2023
Enactment date: 1/6/2024 Law number: 2024/011
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to educational materials on menstrual products
Sponsors: Amanda Farías, Julie Menin, Althea V. Stevens, Farah N. Louis, Shahana K. Hanif, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Chi A. Ossé, Diana I. Ayala, Mercedes Narcisse, Marjorie Velázquez, Shekar Krishnan, Justin L. Brannan, Lynn C. Schulman, Gale A. Brewer, Eric Dinowitz, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Sandra Ung, Sandy Nurse, Shaun Abreu, Oswald Feliz, Julie Won, Carlina Rivera , Pierina Ana Sanchez, Nantasha M. Williams, Rita C. Joseph, Linda Lee, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Kevin C. Riley, Keith Powers , Erik D. Bottcher, James F. Gennaro, Robert F. Holden, Kalman Yeger , Tiffany Cabán, Joann Ariola
Council Member Sponsors: 38
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Education (DOE) to develop, in collaboration with the Commission on Gender Equity, informational materials about menstrual products, to be shared with every student in grades 4 through 12. This bill would also require DOE to submit to the Mayor and the Speaker, and publish on its website, an annual report regarding the distribution of such informational materials.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1058-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1058, 3. Int. No. 1058, 4. May 25, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-25-23, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 25, 2023, 7. Committee Report 9/18/23, 8. Hearing Testimony 9/18/23, 9. Hearing Transcript 9/18/23, 10. Proposed Int. No. 1058-A - 11/29/23, 11. Committee Report 12/6/23, 12. Hearing Transcript 12/6/23, 13. December 6, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 14. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 12-6-23, 15. Int. No. 1058-A (FINAL), 16. Fiscal Impact Statement, 17. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 18. Local Law 11, 19. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - December 6, 2023
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12/6/2023*Amanda Farías Committee on Women and Gender Equity Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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5/25/2023*Amanda Farías City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
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Int. No. 1058-A

 

By Council Member Farías, Menin, Stevens, Louis, Hanif, Restler, Hudson, Ossé, Ayala, Narcisse, Velázquez, Krishnan, Brannan, Schulman, Brewer, Dinowitz, De La Rosa, Ung, Nurse, Abreu, Feliz, Won, Rivera, Sanchez, Williams, Joseph, Lee, Gutiérrez, Richardson Jordan, Salamanca, Riley, Powers, Bottcher, Gennaro, Holden, Yeger, Cabán and Ariola

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to educational materials on menstrual products

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 8 of title 21-a of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-968.1 to read as follows:

§ 21-968.1 Education on menstrual products in schools. a. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Menstrual products. The term “menstrual products” means menstrual cups, tampons, and menstrual pads for use in connection with the menstrual cycle.

School. The term “school” means a school of the city school district or any public school or charter school located in a facility that is leased by the department or over which the department has care, custody, and control serving students in grades 4 through 12.

b. No later than 270 days after the effective date of the local law that added this section, the department, in collaboration with the commission on gender equity, shall develop informational materials about menstrual products to be shared with every student in grades 4 through 12. Such informational materials shall include:

1. A description of each product;

2. Information on how to use each product;

3. Health information associated with each product; and

4. Information about students’ right to products at no cost in school buildings.

c. The department shall post the informational materials required by subdivision b of this section on its website and update such materials as necessary.

d. No later than 1 year after the effective date of the local law that added this section, and annually thereafter, the department shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council and post on its website a report on the department’s distribution of informational materials required by subdivision b of this section. Such report shall include a table in which each separate row references a school building. Each such row shall include the following information set forth in separate columns for the previous 6 months:

1. The school name;

2. The school ID;

3. The number of students in grades 4 through 12;

4. Whether the department provided the school with written materials created pursuant to subdivision b of this section; and

5. Whether the department provided the school with such informational materials as a result of a request made by a school official, including but not limited to a principal, or whether the department provided the school such informational materials in the absence of a request for such materials.  

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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