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Assembly Bill A7557

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides that the commissioner of education may promulgate rules and regulations for a health education curriculum to include menstrual disorders

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2025-A7557 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6227
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §804-e, Ed L

2025-A7557 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the commissioner of education may promulgate rules and regulations for a health education curriculum to include menstrual disorders, including but not limited to, endometriosis.

2025-A7557 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7557
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 1, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KASSAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to including menstrual
   disorders in the health education curriculum in public schools
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 804-e
 to read as follows:
   § 804-E. HEALTH EDUCATION; MENSTRUAL DISORDERS. THE  COMMISSIONER  MAY
 PROMULGATE  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS FOR A HEALTH EDUCATION CURRICULUM TO
 INCLUDE INSTRUCTION REGARDING MENSTRUAL  DISORDERS,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT
 LIMITED  TO,  ENDOMETRIOSIS. THE CONTENTS OF SUCH CURRICULUM MAY INCLUDE
 INFORMATION REGARDING THE TIMING, SIGNS AND  SYMPTOMS  OF  ENDOMETRIOSIS
 AND  OTHER  MENSTRUAL  DISORDERS; THE IMPORTANCE OF MENSTRUAL HEALTH AND
 ITS IMPACTS ON ONE'S PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL,  SOCIAL,  AND  ACADEMIC  LIFE;
 BASIC  STATISTICS  ON  ENDOMETRIOSIS AND OTHER MENSTRUAL DISORDERS; BEST
 PRACTICES ON HOW TO BE ONE'S OWN HEALTHCARE  ADVOCATE;  BASIC  TREATMENT
 OPTIONS  FOR  ENDOMETRIOSIS  AND  OTHER  MENSTRUAL  DISORDERS; AND OTHER
 INFORMATION DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10685-01-5

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