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Providing for access to feminine hygiene products in public school restrooms and making an appropriation
Sponsored by the House Education Committee, Rep. David E. Young (R)
Topics:State budgetK–12 education
Same legislation: HF 543
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 20, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 26, 2025
- Done: House committeeMarch 4, 2025
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, 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 provide free tampons and pads in women's restrooms for students in grades 4 through 12. 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 female students without cost in the women’s 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, 2025, and ending June 30, 2028. 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.
House subcommittee
Named May 9, 2025. On May 12, 2025 it recommended passage.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
13 written public comments to its subcommittee: March 3, 2025 (13) · on the Legislature’s site
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Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.
Tried before
This idea has been filed in 3 earlier General Assemblies. None got through a chamber.
- HF 2562 Providing for access to feminine hygiene products in public school restrooms and making an…90th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 2356 Providing for access to feminine hygiene products in public school restrooms90th General Assembly · In committee · similarCleared committee
- HF 15 Providing for access to feminine hygiene products in public school restrooms89th General Assembly · In committee · similarCleared committee
- HF 2597 Providing for access to feminine hygiene products in public school restrooms88th General Assembly · In committee · similarCleared committee
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