What's happening
This bill requires the creation and distribution of age-specific informational materials about menstrual disorders to schools and healthcare providers in New York.
Why it matters
Aims to improve early recognition and diagnosis. by ensuring students and patients receive information on the timing, signs, and symptoms of endometriosis and other menstrual disorders—potentially reducing delays in treatment and misdiagnosis.
Elevates the importance of menstrual health. by explicitly linking it to physical, emotional, social, and academic well-being, which can help reduce stigma and encourage broader discussions about reproductive health in schools and healthcare settings.
Empowers individuals to advocate for their own health. by providing best practices on self-advocacy, equipping young people and patients with tools to seek appropriate care and communicate effectively with healthcare providers.
Expands awareness of treatment options and follow-up care. by requiring the inclusion of information on basic treatment paths and recommendations for ongoing care, which can improve health outcomes and help individuals navigate the healthcare system more confidently.
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Teach Menstrual Disorder Awareness
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History
- Signed chap.534
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- 3rd reading cal.1454
- Substituted for S6368
- Referred to finance
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.318
- Reported
- Reported referred to ways and means
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- Referred to health
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Educate Youth on Menstrual Health
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Monica Martinez
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STATE OF NEW YORK
484
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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 Assembly, 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 materials 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 physical, 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 healthcare 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.
LBD02164-01-9
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