A 1740: Provides access to menstrual products in toilet facilities in public buildings owned or leased by the state that are determined to be opened to the public; requires reporting.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1740 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, SIMON, GALLAGHER, GLICK, SHIMSKY, REYES, CRUZ, LEVENBERG, WALKER, TAYLOR, RAGA, DE LOS SANTOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the public buildings law, in relation to providing access to menstrual products in toilet facilities in certain public buildings The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public buildings law is amended by adding a new section 2 148 to read as follows: 3 § 148. Access to menstrual products in toilet facilities. 1. Menstrual 4 products shall be provided at no cost, including, but not limited to, 5 sanitary napkins, tampons and panty liners in all female-designated and 6 gender-neutral washrooms and toilet facilities in every covered public 7 building. 8 2. Two years after the effective date of this section the commissioner 9 of general services shall report to the governor and both houses of the 10 legislature the following information including but not limited to: 11 i. the number of toilet facilities this section applies to; 12 ii. the cost of implementing the requirements of this section; 13 iii. the number of toilet facilities that required renovation to 14 implement the requirements of this section; 15 iv. the total number of menstrual products purchased by the state, in 16 relation to the implementation of this section, in the prior year; and 17 v. the total cost to the state to implement the requirements of this 18 section. 19 3. For the purposes of this section "covered public building" shall 20 mean a public building as defined in section two of this chapter, that 21 is determined by the commissioner of general services to be open to the 22 public. For purposes of this section "covered public building" shall not EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04458-01-5 
 A. 1740 2 1 mean any state university of New York buildings, city university of New 2 York buildings, or any buildings owned or leased by a school district. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 4 law.