New York bill S.5910-B/A.4060-A is signed into law. This bill requires all public colleges and universities to provide menstrual care products in restrooms on campus free of charge.

Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro approved a grant that would bring free menstrual products to schools as part of the 2024-2025 budget.

Nebraska LB1284 gets signed into law. This education package bill includes that the State Department of Education shall develop a program to make free menstrual products available in each school district.

Kansas: House Bill 2727 is introduced. This bill requires public and public post-secondary schools to make menstrual products available at no cost to students.

Tennessee: HB2207 gets introduced. This bill would require local education agency and public charter school to provide menstrual products at no cost to the students in certain restrooms. HB 2207 is aimed towards increasing access to products in public restrooms

New Jersey: A3211/S2302 was recently put in place by Governor Murphy. This new law makes feminine hygiene products available in homeless shelters free of charge.

Nebraska: Nebraska Sen. Conrad introduced LB 1050 - this bill will require public schools to provide free period products in restrooms.

Kentucky: HB 148 aims to eliminate taxes on period products and would require middle and high schools across the state to include free period products in bathrooms for students.

Pennsylvania: HB 900 is signed into law. This bill ensures that a monthly supply of menstrual hygiene products shall be provided to all incarcerated individuals at no cost regardless of their financial means.

Arizona: The Arizona Dept. of Education introduced the Dot Project as a one-time appropriation for the 2024-25 school year. This grant helps ensure menstrual products are available in Local Education Agencies restrooms at no cost.

Wisconsin: AB 631 is introduced. This bill requires each school district, independent charter school, and private school participating in a parental choice program to provide free menstrual products in all restroom.

The Massachusetts Senate has unanimously passed S2491. This bill would make disposable menstrual products available at no cost in prisons, homeless shelters, and public schools.

Wisconsin: Senator Melissa Agard introduces SB 590. Under this bill, each school district, independent charter school, and private school participating in a parental choice program would be required to provide free tampons and sanitary napkins in all restroom facilities.

California: Governor Newsom signs AB 230 into law. This bill will extend the Menstrual Equity for All Act of 2021 the new requirements will instead apply to public schools maintaining any combination of classes from grades 3 to 12.

New Hampshire: Governor Chris Sununu signed HB 421 into law. This ensures that menstrual products are available at no cost to anyone who menstruates in state prisons and county jails. HB 421 will take effect August 2023.

Michigan SB 173 gets signed into law. This appropriations bill allows districts that receive state school aid funding to use the funding to provide feminine hygiene products at no cost to students enrolled in the district. (Page 114)

The City of Houston is expanding access to menstrual care products at 30 of its city run buildings. The city buildings include multi-service centers and other places where Houston Health Department provides services.

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US Rep. Grace Meng reintroduced the Menstrual Equity for All Act. H.R. 3646 will increase the availability and affordability of menstrual products for individuals with limited access and for other purposes.

Florida: Governor DeSantis approves HB389. HB389 states that school districts may make menstrual hygiene products available in each school within the district at no charge.

Minnesota: Minnesota House and Senate has repassed H.F. 2497. This bill includes the requirement of a school district or charter school to provide menstrual products at no charge.

Florida: House Bill 389 unanimously passes the House and Senate. HB 389 if signed into law, would authorize school districts to make period products available at no charge in schools within the district.

New Mexico: HB 134 gets signed into law. This bill requires public schools to offer menstrual products free to middle, junior, secondary, and high school students.

Louisiana: HB 117 a bill that would require public schools to provide free menstrual products in easily accessible locations gets introduced.

New Mexico: HB 134 passes the Senate 27-13 and is now headed to the Governor.

Utah: One year after HB162 passed. Utah's Gov. Spencer Cox announced that 1,698 state building restrooms will be stocked with free period products.

Illinois HB 3093 gets introduced. This bill details that every public restroom open to the public shall provide period products at no cost to the user of that public restroom.

Oklahoma: SB 176 requiring school districts and public charter schools to make period products available at no cost in school female restrooms gets introduced.

New Mexico: House Bill 134 was introduced. This bill if enacted would provide free period products in all New Mexico middle and high schools.

Hawaii: Senate Bill 891 was introduced. SB 891 would require the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide menstrual products at no cost in specified restrooms of public buildings.

Arizona: HB 2140 was introduced. This would require a school district or charter school that serves grades 6-12 shall make feminine hygiene products available in all women’s and gender-neutral restrooms.

New Jersey: S-1221 passed by a unanimous vote in the Senate. The bill would require schools teaching grades 6-12 to provide free menstrual products.

California: State Senator Nancy Skinner introduces SB 59. Under SB 59 — “Equity, Period” — states that all state-owned buildings and those that administer state services must provide free period products.

Washington, D.C.: B24-0653 a bill requiring all D.C. government-owned buildings to provide access to free period products has been passed. This bill follows the "Period Act" which requires schools in the District to provide free period products to students.

Ohio: HB743 is introduced. HB743 will require all correctional facilities in the state to provide free feminine hygiene products to all menstruating inmates.

New Jersey: A panel of state lawmakers approved six bills that would make menstrual products without cost in schools, homeless shelters, and through public assistance programs in New Jersey.

Alabama: Beginning in September 2022, Title 1 schools can apply for the feminine hygiene product grant program for 5th through 12th graders. This program allocates funding to schools to provide girls throughout the state with free period products.

North Carolina: HB 103 Bill 103 bill includes funding for the Feminine Hygiene Products Grant. The funding for the grant was derived from HB 1087. The Feminine Hygiene Product Grant provides period products in public schools for free.

Missouri: The state added $1,000,000 into their Fiscal Year 2022-2023 budget to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to provide period products to all middle, junior high, and high schools. HB 3002 was introduced on February 16, 2022, and enacted on June 30, 2022.

Delaware: SB 205 expanding school feminine hygiene access was introduced in the Senate in March 2022 and signed by the Governor on June 14, 2002. The bill expands the availability of free period products to all public and charter schools that have grades 4 through 6.

Connecticut: Public Act 22-118/HB 5506/5272 passes. This bill states that the local and regional Board of Education must provide menstrual products for free in restrooms in schools for grades 3-12. (Page 112)

Free menstrual hygiene products for public schools in New South Wales, Australia

Utah House passes bill funding free period products in Utah schools, HB162

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

Illinois: HB 0156 is approved by Governor JB Pritzker, effective 8/13/2021. This measure requires menstrual products in school girls’ And boys’ bathrooms.

Colorado: Senate Bill 21-255 signed by Governor Jared S. Polis. The act creates in the department of education the menstrual hygiene products accessibility grant program to provide awards to eligible grant recipients in order to provide menstrual hygiene products at no expense to students. For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, $100,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the department of education to implement the act.

Oregon: Menstrual Dignity Act, HB 3294 was enrolled June 30,2021 and signed by Governor 7/27/2021. 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, effective July 1, 2021.

Rhode Island: The H5083 Act passed June 29, 2021 and was signed by the Governor 7/2/2021. Public schools who teach grades five through 12 must provide pads and tampons in gender-neutral and women's bathrooms beginning in the 2022-2023 school year at no cost to students. Effective: Beginning of the 2022-2023 school year

Maine: An Act To Require Certain Schools To Provide Menstrual Products, HP 328. This bill requires school administrative units to require all schools that serve students in grades 6 to 12 to make available menstrual products to students at no cost in all school bathrooms. Passed the House 6/8/2021; Carried Over by the senate 7/19/2021.

Reno, Nevada: In the final hours of Nevada's 2021 legislative session, one Nevada teen wanted to make a difference for other young women at school by pushing for free period products in public school bathrooms.

Maryland: 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.

Washington: 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.

Delaware: Amended Title 14 of the Delaware Code. By the 2021-2022 school year, all public and charter schools with grades 6-12 shall provide free menstrual care products in a minimum of ½ of the bathrooms.

New Zealand to Roll Out Free Period Products to All Students. The program, designed to reduce “period poverty,” will begin in June.

What the U.S. Can Learn From Scotland’s Period Products Law, December 7, 2020

Period poverty bill to make sanitary products free in Scotland, February 25, 2020

Virginia: Bill for schools to provide menstrual products passes in Virginia Senate, January 2020

The province announced that free menstrual products are now available for public school students across Nova Scotia, September 17, 2019

New Hampshire Senate Bill 142 requires school districts to make menstrual hygiene products available at no cost in school restrooms. Effective July 18, 2019

Tennessee HB 1483 Authorizes qualifying Public High Schools to provide Menstrual Care Products effective 7/1/2019

All British Columbia public schools will be required to provide free menstrual products for students in school washrooms by the end of 2019.

California AB-10 Requires Public Schools to Provide Feminine Hygiene Products

Illinois State Menstrual Care Bill Effective 1.1.2018