Senate Bill S7495

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the menopause awareness improvement act

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Women's Issues Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S7495 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Women's Issues
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §§267-c & 267-d, Pub Health L

2025-S7495 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the menopause awareness improvement act; establishes a menopause education program; establishes course work or training in menopausal health; directs the commissioner of labor to conduct a study on the impact of menopause on the workforce.

2025-S7495 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7495 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7495
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 17, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enacting the meno-
   pause awareness improvement act
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "menopause
 awareness improvement act".
   § 2. Legislative findings. Whereas, by 2030, the world  population  of
 menopausal  and  postmenopausal  people  is projected to increase to 1.2
 billion, with 27 million new entrants each year;
   Whereas, each year people in the United States  enter  the  menopausal
 transition  with  little  clinical guidance on what to expect during and
 after this transition;
   Whereas, according to the United States Department of Health and Human
 Services, at least three out of four people experience hot flashes,  the
 most common menopause symptom; and other symptoms including memory loss,
 urinary problems, sleep disturbances, depression, and anxiety;
   Whereas, menopausal symptoms can be severe and affect daily activities
 and  quality of life for an extended period, with hot flashes lasting an
 average of 7 to 9 years, and a third of  people  experiencing  vasomotor
 symptoms for a decade or longer;
   Whereas,  studies  show  that Black and Hispanic people may experience
 menopause earlier, with more intense  menopausal  symptoms,  and  for  a
 longer period of time;
   Whereas, as many as 40 percent of menopausal people say their symptoms
 interfered with their work performance or productivity weekly, and near-
 ly  one  in  five say they have left or considered leaving the workforce
 because of their symptoms;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10136-03-5
 S. 7495                             2
 
              

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