Bills › 90th General Assembly
Relating to the provision of period products
Topics:Crime & correctionsK–12 educationHealth care
Same legislation: SF 74
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 12, 2023
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- 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 State-run buildings, public and private schools, and correctional facilities must provide tampons and pads for free. These products will be available in restrooms for students, staff, patients, and the public. This rule also ensures that people living in state-run health and correctional institutions have access to the supplies they need.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires period products to be available at no cost in certain buildings, institutions, and facilities under the control of the state and in schools. The bill requires that 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. The bill requires that institutions controlled by the director of the department of health and human services make period products available, at no cost, to residents or patients of the institutions in locations and as appropriate to the health care needs of the residents or patients, and to staff and the public, in the restrooms of the institutions. The bill requires the superintendent of the school for the deaf to make period products available, at no cost, to students, staff, and the public in the restrooms of school buildings and of each campus building frequented by students, staff, and the public. The bill requires the board of directors of each public school district and the authorities in charge of each nonpublic school to ensure that period products are available, at no cost, to students, staff, and the public in the restrooms of school buildings. The bill requires that the department of corrections ensure that period products are available to offenders committed to the institutions at no cost and in a quantity and as appropriate to the health care needs of the individual offender. The bill also requires the department of corrections to ensure that period products are available, at no cost, to staff and the public, in the restrooms of institutions. For the purposes of the bill, “period products” means tampons and period pads for use in connection with the menstrual cycle.
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Lobbying
4 for · 0 against · 2 undecided · Who →
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Tried before
90th General Assembly
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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.
- SF 2020 Relating to the provision of period products89th General Assembly · In committee · nearly identicalCleared committee
- SF 34 Relating to the provision of period products89th General Assembly · In committee · nearly identicalCleared committee
- SF 2039 Relating to the provision of menstrual products88th General Assembly · In committee · very similarCleared committee
Similar bills this General Assembly
- SF 133 Relating to the provision of period products91st General Assembly · In committeeVery similar
Matched by wording or an identical title.