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HF 2562Died when the session ended · February 19, 2024

Providing for access to feminine hygiene products in public school restrooms and making an appropriation

Topics:State budgetK–12 education

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 19, 2024
  2. Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
  3. Next: House committee
  4. Next: Passes the House
  5. Next: Senate committee
  6. Next: Passes the Senate
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary School boards must make sure students in grades 4 through 12 can get pads or tampons for free in at least half of their school restrooms. These supplies must be refilled on a regular basis. The state will provide money to school districts to help pay for these products.1

Read the official explanation

This bill requires school boards to ensure that feminine hygiene products can be accessed by students without cost in at least half of the restrooms in school buildings in the district where students in grades through are educated and that the supply of feminine hygiene products is refilled regularly. The bill defines “feminine hygiene products” as sanitary napkins, tampons, or other similar items used for feminine hygiene. The bill appropriates an amount necessary to fund the full cost of compliance with the bill by school districts from the general fund of the state to the department of education for the period beginning July 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2027. The bill directs the department to establish processes for school districts to submit the documented cost of compliance to the department and for the department to reimburse school districts for such costs.3.16.2. The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any state mandates included in the bill.

Full bill text2

Iowa Code it changes

Creates§279.84

How the Code works3

Lobbying

7 for · 0 against · 0 undecided · Who →

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Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.

Tried before

This idea has been filed in 2 earlier General Assemblies. None got through a chamber.

  • HF 15 Providing for access to feminine hygiene products in public school restrooms
    89th General Assembly · In committee · similar
    Cleared committee
  • HF 2597 Providing for access to feminine hygiene products in public school restrooms
    88th General Assembly · In committee · similar
    Cleared committee

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