Assembly Bill A2698

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes an awareness campaign on the use of hormone replacement therapy in treating the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause

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  • 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-A2698 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1720
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §207, Pub Health L

2025-A2698 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes an awareness campaign on the use of hormone replacement therapy in treating the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.

2025-A2698 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2698
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. FORREST -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  establishing  an
   awareness campaign on the use of hormone replacement therapy in treat-
   ing the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 207 of the public  health  law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (t) to read as follows:
   (T)  HORMONE  REPLACEMENT  THERAPY, INCLUDING INFORMATION ON PERIMENO-
 PAUSE AND MENOPAUSE, ASSOCIATED SYMPTOMS, AND  POTENTIAL  HEALTH  RISKS;
 THE VALUE OF HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY WHEN USED TO TREAT THE SYMPTOMS
 OF PERIMENOPAUSE AND MENOPAUSE; THE TYPES OF HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY
 AVAILABLE INCLUDING BENEFITS, RISKS AND SIDE EFFECTS; AND CURRENT RECOM-
 MENDATIONS  FOR THE USAGE OF HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY AND OTHER RELE-
 VANT INFORMATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05389-01-5

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