File #: Int 1056-2023    Version: * Name: Provision of feminine hygiene products in schools.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Women and Gender Equity
On agenda: 5/25/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the provision of feminine hygiene products in schools
Sponsors: Carmen N. De La Rosa, Adrienne E. Adams, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Amanda Farías, Althea V. Stevens, Farah N. Louis, Shahana K. Hanif, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Chi A. Ossé, Kevin C. Riley, James F. Gennaro, Julie Won, Alexa Avilés, Gale A. Brewer
Council Member Sponsors: 15
Summary: This bill would expand the schools in which the Department of Education is required to provide feminine hygiene products pursuant to administrative code section 21-968 to include schools serving students in grades 4 through 12.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1056, 2. Int. No. 1056, 3. May 25, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-25-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 25, 2023, 6. Committee Report 9/18/23, 7. Hearing Testimony 9/18/23, 8. Hearing Transcript 9/18/23
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9/18/2023*Carmen N. De La Rosa Committee on Women and Gender Equity Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/18/2023*Carmen N. De La Rosa Committee on Women and Gender Equity Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/25/2023*Carmen N. De La Rosa City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/25/2023*Carmen N. De La Rosa City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1056

 

By Council Member De La Rosa, the Speaker (Council Member Adams), and Council Members Brooks-Powers, Farías, Stevens, Louis, Hanif, Restler, Hudson, Ossé, Riley, Gennaro, Won, Avilés and Brewer

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the provision of feminine hygiene products in schools

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. The definition of “school building” set forth in subdivision a of section 21-968 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 84 for the year 2016, is amended to read as follows:

School building. The term "school building" means any facility that is leased by the department or over which the department has care, custody and control, in which there is a public school, including a charter school, serving female students in any combination of grades from grade [six]4 through [twelve] grade 12.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SMD

LS #8207/13502/13509

5/19/2023