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Assembly Bill A9000

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Directs the department of health to create an informational pamphlet concerning menopause

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2025-A9000 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §267-c, Pub Health L

2025-A9000 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of health to develop an informational pamphlet concerning menopause, which shall include information concerning the stages of menopause, the signs and side effects of menopause, and options for the management and treatment of menopause; requires that such informational pamphlet be made available on the department's website and available for order as a printed deliverable; requires practitioners to make such informational pamphlet available to patients.

2025-A9000 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9000
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  directing  the
   department  of  health  to create an informational pamphlet concerning
   menopause
 
   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
 267-c to read as follows:
   § 267-C. INFORMATION CONCERNING MENOPAUSE.  1.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL
 DEVELOP  AN  INFORMATIONAL  PAMPHLET CONCERNING MENOPAUSE. SUCH PAMPHLET
 SHALL INCLUDE, BUT SHALL NOT BE LIMITED TO, INFORMATION CONCERNING:
   (A) THE STAGES OF MENOPAUSE;
   (B) THE SIGNS AND SIDE EFFECTS OF MENOPAUSE; AND
   (C) OPTIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND TREATMENT OF MENOPAUSE.
   2.  SUCH  INFORMATIONAL  PAMPHLET  SHALL  BE  WRITTEN  IN  LAYPERSON'S
 LANGUAGE  AND SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH AND THE SIX MOST COMMON
 NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY INDIVIDUALS WITH LIMITED ENGLISH  PROFI-
 CIENCY IN NEW YORK STATE AS BASED ON THE MOST RECENT CENSUS.
   3.  SUCH INFORMATIONAL PAMPHLET SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE ON THE DEPART-
 MENT'S WEBSITE AS A PRINTABLE FILE AND MAY ALSO BE  MADE  AVAILABLE  FOR
 ORDER AS A PRINTED DELIVERABLE ON THE DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE.
   4.  PRACTITIONERS  SHALL MAKE SUCH INFORMATIONAL PAMPHLET AVAILABLE TO
 PATIENTS.
   5. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "PRACTITIONER" SHALL  MEAN  A  HEALTH
 CARE  PROFESSIONAL  LICENSED, CERTIFIED OR OTHERWISE AUTHORIZED TO PRAC-
 TICE UNDER THE EDUCATION LAW, ACTING WITHIN THEIR SCOPE OF PRACTICE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13500-02-5

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