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Assembly Bill A10763

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to informational materials concerning menstrual disorders

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2017-A10763 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8543
Current Committee:
Assembly Rules
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §268, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A484, S1016, S6368

2017-A10763 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of health to develop informational materials concerning menstrual disorders for distribution in schools and to patients.

2017-A10763 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10763
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 17, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health  law,  in  relation  to  informational
   materials concerning menstrual disorders
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 268 to read as follows:
   §   268.   INFORMATIONAL  MATERIALS  CONCERNING  MENSTRUAL  DISORDERS.
 SUBJECT TO APPROPRIATION, THE  COMMISSIONER,  IN  CONJUNCTION  WITH  THE
 COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION, SHALL CREATE AGE SPECIFIC INFORMATIONAL MATE-
 RIALS  TO  BE PROVIDED TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS
 UPON REQUEST TO DISTRIBUTE TO STUDENTS AND PATIENTS EDUCATING THEM ABOUT
 MENSTRUAL DISORDERS AND THEIR SYMPTOMS. THE MATERIALS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT
 BE NOT LIMITED TO:
   1. THE TIMING, SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF ENDOMETRIOSIS AND OTHER MENSTRUAL
 DISORDERS;
   2. THE IMPORTANCE OF MENSTRUAL HEALTH AND ITS IMPACTS ON  ONE'S  PHYS-
 ICAL, EMOTIONAL, SOCIAL, AND ACADEMIC LIFE;
   3. BASIC STATISTICS ON ENDOMETRIOSIS AND OTHER MENSTRUAL DISORDERS;
   4. BEST PRACTICES ON HOW TO BE ONE'S OWN HEALTHCARE ADVOCATE; AND
   5.  BASIC  TREATMENT  OPTIONS  FOR  ENDOMETRIOSIS  AND OTHER MENSTRUAL
 DISORDERS, AS WELL AS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FOLLOW-UP CARE FROM A  HEALTH-
 CARE PROVIDER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15806-01-8

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