The New York State Senate Committee on Womens Issues on March 11, 2025, advanced five bills addressing womens health and one education proposal, the committee announced at the start of the meeting.

The measures included bills to ensure ovarian cancer survivors access to screenings, require an unspecified education‑law change (full title not specified in the hearing record), require an informational pamphlet on laparoscopic power morcellation, establish a uterine fibroids awareness and education program, and create a statewide fibroid study program with a dedicated fund.

The committee reported S.520 (sponsored by Senator Prasad) to the Senate Finance Committee after a motion moved by Senator White and seconded by Senator Scarcellus Fenton. The clerks reading described S.520 as "to amend the public health law in relation to ensuring ovarian cancer survivors have the right to access . . . screenings for health conditions." The record contains no further legislative text in the hearing transcript.

A bill identified in the record as S.2058 (sponsor listed in the transcript as "by me") was read as "an act to amend the education law in relation to requiring institutions within the"; the clerks reading in the transcript is incomplete and the full statutory language is not specified. The sponsor in the record said the bill "will have a very positive impacts" and that several colleges already do whatever the bill proposes. The committee moved S.2058 (motion recorded as made by Senator Carcelis Fann and seconded by Senator April Baskin) and reported it to the Senates Higher Education Committee; the transcript records that Senator Wike was noted as "without recommendation."

S.3193 (sponsored by Senator Prasad) was described in the clerks reading as "an act to amend the public health law in relation to directing the Department of Health to create an informational pamphlet regarding the laparoscopic power morcellation surgery technique." The motion to move S.3193 was recorded as made by Senator Scarcellus Fenton, seconded by Senator Wike, and the committee advanced the bill to first reading.

S.3575 was read as "an act to amend the public health law in relation to establishing a uterine fibroids awareness and education program." The motion on S.3575 was recorded as made by "Senator Mike" and seconded by Senator Scarcellus Fenton; the committee advanced S.3575 to first reading.

S.3576 was read as "an act to amend the public health law in relation to the statewide fibroid set study program and to amend the state finance law in relation to establishing the statewide fibroid study program fund." The motion was recorded as made by Senator Scarcellus Fenton and seconded by Senator Wike; the committee reported S.3576 to the Finance Committee.

Senator White opened the meeting and said she was "looking forward to an exciting meeting," according to the transcript. The meeting record shows no extended floor debate on the bills; votes were recorded by voice and the clerk announced outcomes (reported to finance, reported to higher education, or advanced to first reading) as noted above.

All bill motions listed in the transcript were approved by voice vote during the session; the record does not include a roll‑call vote or a numerical tally for any motion in the committee transcript provided.

Next steps: S.520 and S.3576 were sent to the Finance Committee; S.2058 was sent to Higher Education; S.3193 and S.3575 were advanced to first reading in the Senate.