California

Code 3409

Summary

A person incarcerated in state prison who menstruates or experiences uterine or vaginal bleeding shall, upon request, have access to, and be allowed to use, materials necessary for personal hygiene with regard to their menstrual cycle and reproductive system, including, but not limited to, sanitary pads and tampons, at no cost to the incarcerated person.

California

AB 10

Summary

Requires public schools to provide menstrual care products in restrooms at no cost to students.

Oregon

HB 3294

Summary

Each public education provider shall ensure that both tampons and sanitary pads are available at no cost to students through dispensers located in at least two student bathrooms of every public school building.

Oregon

HB 2515

Summary

Requires correctional facilities to provide tampons, sanitary pads, postpartum pads and panty liners to certain incarcerated persons at no cost.

Washington

HB 1273

Summary

By the beginning of the 2022-23 school year, school districts and private schools in the State of Washington must make menstrual hygiene products available at no cost in all gender-neutral bathrooms and bathrooms designated for female students located in schools that serve students in any of grades six through twelve.

Nevada

AB 224

Summary

AB224 was signed into law by Nevada Gov. Sisolak, requiring charter schools, middle, junior and high schools to provide menstrual products in school bathrooms.

Arizona

HB2222

Summary

The Arizona Department of Corrections announced that it is changing its policy and will provide free tampons to inmates. The department also announced it would triple the minimum number of free pads that inmates receive per month to 36, from 12.

Arizona

SB 1720S

Summary

This appropriation bill provides a one-time $2M for menstrual care products for the fiscal year 2023-2024 to district public and charter schools. (Sec. 31, PAGE 36)

Utah

HB162

Summary

This bill requires local school boards and charter school governing boards to provide period products in certain restrooms within all school facilities.

Colorado

SB21-255

Summary

Free Menstrual Hygiene Products To Students: Provides menstrual hygiene products at no expense to students, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation. For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, $100,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the department of education to implement the act.

Colorado

HB19-1224

Summary

The act requires the following facilities to provide whichever menstrual hygiene products are requested by a person in custody to the person in custody at no expense to the person in custody: Local jails, multijurisdictional jails, and municipal jails; Correctional facilities and private contract prisons; and Department of human services facilities.

New Mexico

HB134

Summary

Menstrual products shall be provided free of charge to students in every public middle school, junior high, secondary, and high school.

Nebraska

Policy Change

Summary

Department of Correctional Services bypassed the legislative process when it announced last month that all generic tampons and pads will be provided for free and that it will only charge inmates for name-brand supplies.

Minnesota

HF 2497

Summary

A school district or charter school must provide students with access to menstrual products at no charge.

Missouri

Grant

Summary

The purpose of this grant is to provide financial support to districts for the purchase of feminine hygiene products for students in grades 6-12.

Arkansas

HB1611 / Act 933

Summary

An act concerning feminine hygiene products in public schools and open-enrollment public charter schools; To allow public schools and open-enrollment public charter schools to use funding to provide feminine hygiene products at no charge in each public school and open-enrollment public charter school; And for other purposes.

Louisiana

SB558

Summary

Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a new law that will give women in prison access to as many tampons and sanitary napkins as they need free of charge.

Illinois

HB 641

Summary

The bill requires all public universities and community colleges across the state to provide free feminine hygiene products in campus bathrooms.

Illinois

HB310

Summary

Bill requires all homeless shelters that grant temporary housing to women and youth to provide products such as sanitary napkins, tampons and panty liners free of charge, if their budget allows for it. Effective January 1, 2022

Illinois

HB4218

Summary

Provides that menstrual hygiene products are available free of charge to all institutions and facilities of the Department of Corrections for all committed persons and employees who menstruate

Tennessee

HB 1483

Summary

Each Local Education Association in Tennessee is authorized to provide feminine hygiene products at no charge in women’s/girl’s bathrooms for all eligible schools.

Mississippi

HB 1264

Summary

An act to authorize school districts to make feminine hygiene products available, at no cost to students, in bathrooms or offices of the school for students in grades 6 through twelve.

Mississippi

HB 196

Summary

To provide that incarcerated women shall have access to feminine hygiene products and provide such products at no cost if an inmate is determined to be indigent.

Michigan

SB 173

Summary

This appropriations bill allows school districts to use the state school aid fund to provide feminine hygiene products at no cost to students enrolled in the district. (Page 114) Effective Date: October 2023

Michigan

HB 5426

Summary

Provides that tampons and sanitary napkins shall be made available free of charge in all women’s restrooms in state owned facilities.

Michigan

GENERAL HEALTH

Summary

Ann Arbor becomes 1st US city to require menstrual products in all public bathrooms

Kentucky

Section 441.055

Summary

All minimum standards promulgated by the department applying to county jails and correctional or detention facilities shall include requirements for adequate nutrition for pregnant prisoners, an adequate number of hygiene products for female prisoners, and an appropriate number of undergarments for female prisoners.

Ohio

HB33

Summary

This bill states that each school district, other public school, and chartered nonpublic school that enrolls girls in any of grades 6-12 shall provide free feminine hygiene products to those students.

Alabama

HB50

Summary

This bill would require local boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in women's restrooms at schools under the board's jurisdiction

Alabama

Code 14-3-44

Summary

This bill requires the Department of Corrections to provide feminine hygiene products to female prisoners at the expense of the department.

Florida

HB 49

Summary

Female inmates will now get basic hygiene products such as pads and tampons for free after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act.

Florida

HB 389

Summary

The bill provides that school districts may make menstrual hygiene products available in each school within the district, at no charge. The menstrual hygiene products may be located in the school nurse's office, other physical school facilities for health services, and in school restrooms, including wheelchair-accessible restrooms.

Georgia

SB 91

Summary

Georgia lawmakers set aside money in the 2020 $27.5 billion state budget to provide free menstrual pads and tampons to low-income women and girls.

South Carolina

H3967/Title 24 (Section 24-13-35)

Summary

Correctional facilities, local detention facilities, and prison or work camps must ensure that sufficient menstrual hygiene products. Indigent inmates must be provided the products at no cost.

North Carolina

HB103/Section 7.10

Summary

The Department of Public Instruction shall establish the Feminine Hygiene Products Grant Program to assist public school units participating in the Program in providing students with feminine hygiene products at no charge to the student.

Virginia

SB232

Summary

Each school board shall make menstrual supplies available at all times and at no cost to students in the bathrooms of each school building where at least 40 percent of enrolled students are eligible for free or reduced lunch.

Virginia

HB 83

Summary

Feminine hygiene products; no cost to female prisoners or inmates. Directs the State Board of Corrections and the Director of the Department of Corrections to each adopt and implement a standard or procedure to ensure the provision of feminine hygiene products to female prisoners and inmates without charge.

New York

S8821A

Summary

Ensures access to feminine hygiene products for incarcerated women in correctional facilities across New York State, free of charge.

New York

Section 267

Summary

Requires schools in New York State to provide free menstrual products in restrooms for girls in grades 6 through 12. Such products shall be provided at no charge to students.

Maryland

SB 427

Summary

HB204 / SB427 Requires each public school to provide, at no charge, menstrual hygiene products via dispensers in women's restrooms at the schools; Requires the state to reimburse for the costs of purchasing and installing menstrual hygiene dispensers.

Maryland

SB598

Summary

Correctional facilities must have a policy requiring menstrual hygiene products to be provided at no cost to a female inmate. Officials are also required to ensure a “sufficient supply” to “meet the needs of the inmate population at all times.” The definition in the law includes tampons and sanitary napkins.

Delaware

HB 20

Summary

This bill requires all public and charter schools which have students in grades 6-12 to provide free feminine hygiene products in 50% of the bathrooms used by students who can have a menstrual cycle. This bill also requires schools to publish on its website and post in its common areas the locations of the bathrooms where the hygiene products are provided.

Delaware

SB 166

Summary

This Act requires that feminine hygiene products be provided free of charge to individuals in custody at facilities operated by the Department of Correction and facilities operated by the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families.

New Jersey

S1221/A1349

Summary

A school district shall ensure that students in each school educating students in grades 6 through 12, or any combination thereof, have direct access to menstrual products in at least 50 percent of female and gender-neutral school bathrooms if applicable, free of charge. Effective Date: 2024

Connecticut

SB 13

Summary

DOC to provide inmates with feminine hygiene products free of cost, upon request.

Connecticut

HB 5506

Summary

This budget bill states that local and regional board of education shall provide free menstrual products in restrooms accessible to students

Rhode Island

HB 5083

Maine

LD 628

Summary

Prisoners will have free access to menstrual products in Maine jails and prisons under a new law in the state.

New Hampshire

SB 142

Summary

Menstrual hygiene products are required in school restrooms, effective July 18, 2019. School districts shall make sanitary napkins and tampons available at no cost in bathrooms.

New Hampshire

HB421

Summary

Requires menstrual hygiene products to be provided to prisoners who menstruate in state and county correctional facilities.

Vermont

S115/Act66

Summary

This bill includes that all students attending public schools or an approved independent school have access to menstrual products at no cost and without having to request them.

California

SB59

Summary

An act to add Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 24300) to Division 20 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to menstrual products.

Oklahoma

SB176

Summary

Requires certain schools to make feminine hygiene products available in certain restrooms.

Texas

HB4199

Summary

Each school district shall make menstrual products available free of charge in each restroom designated for female students located on each campus in the district.

Iowa

SF74

Summary

The entity with authority over a state building shall ensure that period products are available, at no cost, in the restrooms of the state building.

Iowa

HF443

Summary

Companion bill to SF 74. The entity with authority over a state building shall ensure that period products are available, at no cost, in the restrooms of the state building.

Missouri

HB318

Summary

This bill specifies that the Director of the Department of Corrections must ensure that tampons and sanitary napkins are available for free to offenders while they are confined in any of the Department's correctional centers.

Louisiana

HB 117

Summary

Requires public schools to provide free menstrual products in easily accessible locations

Illinois

HB3093

Summary

Provide that every public restroom open to the public shall include menstrual hygiene products at no cost to the user of that restroom

Kentucky

SB55

Summary

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require each public school that includes any of grades four through 12 to provide free feminine hygiene products to female students; require each local board of education to adopt policies for the distribution of free feminine hygiene products; define feminine hygiene products.

Ohio

HB743

Summary

The bill builds on the “Expanding Student Access to Period Products Act of 2021” introduced by Councilmember Pinto and passed and funded by the Council to provide period products and expand menstrual education in District of Columbia schools.

South Carolina

H4784

Summary

Requires public buildings owned by the state or any agency, office, department, division, commission, or institution thereof, including state and local correctional and prison facilities, to supply feminine hygiene products in each female public restroom.

South Carolina

H 5230

Summary

Requires every state correctional facility, local detention facility, jail, prison camp and work camp to provide feminine hygiene products at no charge.

South Carolina

H 3302

Summary

Every public school shall maintain a supply of feminine hygiene products that students may use free of charge.

West Virginia

SB489

Summary

All county boards of education shall make feminine hygiene products free of charge, available to female students, attending public school, in grades three through 12.

Pennsylvania

HB 900

Summary

A supply of feminine hygiene products shall be provided to all incarcerated individuals and detainees who are menstruating in a correctional institution each month at no cost to the incarcerated individuals and detainees, regardless of financial means.

New York

A10270

Summary

Requires that all female-designated bathrooms in the state of New York provide feminine hygiene products at no cost.

New York

S5913

Summary

An Act to amend the public health law, in relation to providing menstrual products in non-public schools at no charge.

Massachusetts

HB 561

Summary

All elementary and secondary public schools in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts serving students in any grade from grade six through grade twelve shall provide feminine hygiene products in the restrooms of such school building or buildings. Such products shall be provided at no charge to students.

Massachusetts

I AM BILL

Massachusetts

I AM BILL, H2354, S1445

Maine

LD 348

Summary

This bill requires school administrative units to require their schools that serve students in any of grades 6 to 12 to make available menstrual products to students at no cost in all school bathrooms.