NY State Senate Bill 2025-S6227

Senate Bill S6227

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides that the commissioner of education may promulgate rules and regulations for a health education curriculum to include menstrual disorders

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

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Mar 06, 2025	referred to women's issues

2025-S6227 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Women's Issues
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Add §804-e, Ed L

2025-S6227 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the commissioner of education may promulgate rules and regulations for a health education curriculum to include menstrual disorders, including but not limited to, endometriosis.

2025-S6227 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S6227

SPONSOR: MARTINEZ
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to including menstrual
disorders in the health education curriculum in public schools

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of this bill is to increase awareness and education about
menstrual disorders, particularly endometriosis, which impacts roughly 1
in 10 women.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Adds Section 804-e to the education law, giving power to the
commissioner to promulgate rules and regulations for instruction on
menstrual disorders, including endometriosis, and guidance on what
curriculum should cover.

Section 2. Provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The purpose of this bill is to increase awareness for endometriosis and
other menstrual disorders impacting women which are often overlooked.
Endometriosis is a condition that causes extra tissue growth around the
uterus and often leads to infertility, impacting roughly 1 in 10 women
in Americas. However, despite the large number of people impacted by
this disorder, it often gets overlooked or misdiagnosed by medical
professionals and the average time to diagnosis is 7-10 years'. Many are
unaware endometriosis exists. This bill aims to increase awareness by
giving the Commissioner of Education the power to create health curric-
ulum instruction covering menstrual disorders and provides general guid-
ance on what curriculum should include, like the importance of menstrual
health.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date
on which it shall have become a law.
1 https://www.endofound.org/endometriosis-a-to-z
2 https://www.whointinews-room/fact-sheets/detailiendometriosis

2025-S6227 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6227
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  including  menstrual
   disorders in the health education curriculum in public schools
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  804-e
 to read as follows:
   §  804-E.  HEALTH EDUCATION; MENSTRUAL DISORDERS. THE COMMISSIONER MAY
 PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR A HEALTH  EDUCATION  CURRICULUM  TO
 INCLUDE  INSTRUCTION  REGARDING  MENSTRUAL  DISORDERS, INCLUDING BUT NOT
 LIMITED TO, ENDOMETRIOSIS. THE CONTENTS OF SUCH CURRICULUM  MAY  INCLUDE
 INFORMATION  REGARDING  THE  TIMING, SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF ENDOMETRIOSIS
 AND OTHER MENSTRUAL DISORDERS; THE IMPORTANCE OF  MENSTRUAL  HEALTH  AND
 ITS  IMPACTS  ON  ONE'S  PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, SOCIAL, AND ACADEMIC LIFE;
 BASIC STATISTICS ON ENDOMETRIOSIS AND OTHER  MENSTRUAL  DISORDERS;  BEST
 PRACTICES  ON  HOW  TO BE ONE'S OWN HEALTHCARE ADVOCATE; BASIC TREATMENT
 OPTIONS FOR ENDOMETRIOSIS  AND  OTHER  MENSTRUAL  DISORDERS;  AND  OTHER
 INFORMATION DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10685-01-5

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