A2437 1R Senate Statement 12/18/25

Assembly Bill No. 2437 (1R) requires the ingredients of menstrual products to be listed on the package.

The bill, as reported by the Assembly Community Development and Women’s Affairs Committee, requires every package or box of menstrual products that is sold or offered for sale in the State, no later than 18 months after the effective date of the bill, to include a label on every package or box of menstrual products that is sold or offered for sale in the State listing all of the ingredients contained in the menstrual product, with the ingredients listed in descending order of predominance within the menstrual product.

These Senate amendments instead require every manufacturer of menstrual products sold or offered for sale in this State to ensure that a label is included on every package or box containing menstrual products that is sold or offered for sale in this State listing all of the ingredients contained in the menstrual product as set forth above.

In addition, under the bill, as reported by the Assembly Community Development and Women’s Affairs Committee, when a manufacturer of menstrual products is required to change the label on a menstrual product due to a change in an ingredient, or addition or removal of an ingredient, the manufacturer is required to make the change to the label within 18 months of the change in the ingredient.

These Sente amendments also require the manufacturer to promptly post on its Internet website information concerning any changes requiring a change to the label on a menstrual product under the bill’s provisions no later than six months after making any ingredient change, addition, or removal.

The bill, as reported by the Assembly Community Development and Women’s Affairs Committee, provides that a manufacturer may include confidential business information by its common name with the label information required under the bill’s provisions in order to protect a substance’s confidential identity.

These Senate amendments instead provide that if, in complying with the bill’s provisions regarding labeling of menstrual products, a manufacturer declines to disclose confidential business information on a package or box containing menstrual products or on its Internet website in order to protect a substance’s confidential business information, the manufacturer is required to include the confidential business information by its common name with the label information required under the bill.

Further, under the bill, as reported by the Assembly Community Development and Women’s Affairs Committee, a manufacturer of menstrual products that manufactures for distribution or sale in this State, a package or box containing menstrual products that does not meet the requirements set forth in the bill is liable to a civil penalty equal to one percent of the manufacturer’s total annual in-State sales of menstrual products for each package or box containing menstrual products that does not meet the bill’s requirements. The civil penalty was not to exceed $1,000 per package or box.

These Senate amendments remove this penalty and instead provide that in addition to any other penalties authorized by law, it is an unlawful practice and a violation of the consumer fraud act for any manufacturer of menstrual products to sell or offer for sale in this State a package or box containing menstrual products that does not meet the requirements set forth in the bill. An unlawful practice and violation of the consumer fraud act is punishable by a monetary penalty of not more than $10,000 for a first offense and not more than $20,000 for any subsequent offense. In addition, violations may result in cease and desist orders issued by the Attorney General, the assessment of punitive damages, and the awarding of treble damages and costs to the injured party.

These Senate amendments also make clarifying changes to make the provisions of the bill apply to manufacturers of menstrual products “sold or offered for sale in this State” consistently throughout the bill.

Finally, these Senate amendments make technical and clarifying changes.