102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB0156

 

Introduced 1/22/2021, by Rep. Barbara Hernandez and Margaret Croke

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/10-20.63
105 ILCS 5/34-18.56

    Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district shall make menstrual (rather than feminine) hygiene products available, at no cost to students, in each bathroom of every school building (rather than in bathrooms of school buildings). Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
510-20.63 and 34-18.56 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/10-20.63)
7    Sec. 10-20.63. Availability of menstrual feminine hygiene
8products.
9    (a) The General Assembly finds the following:
10        (1) Menstrual Feminine hygiene products are a health
11    care necessity and not an item that can be foregone or
12    substituted easily.
13        (2) Access to menstrual feminine hygiene products is a
14    serious and ongoing need in this State.
15        (3) When students do not have access to affordable
16    menstrual feminine hygiene products, they may miss
17    multiple days of school every month.
18        (4) When students have access to quality menstrual
19    feminine hygiene products, they are able to continue with
20    their daily lives with minimal interruption.
21    (b) In this Section:
22    "Menstrual hygiene products" "Feminine hygiene products"
23means tampons and sanitary napkins for use in connection with

 

 

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1the menstrual cycle.
2    "School building" means any facility (i) that is owned or
3leased by a school district or over which the school board has
4care, custody, and control and (ii) in which there is a public
5school serving students in grades 6 through 12.
6    (c) A school district shall make menstrual feminine
7hygiene products available, at no cost to students, in each
8bathroom of every school building the bathrooms of school
9buildings.
10(Source: P.A. 100-163, eff. 1-1-18; 100-863, eff. 8-14-18.)
 
11    (105 ILCS 5/34-18.56)
12    Sec. 34-18.56. Availability of menstrual feminine hygiene
13products.
14    (a) The General Assembly finds the following:
15        (1) Menstrual Feminine hygiene products are a health
16    care necessity and not an item that can be foregone or
17    substituted easily.
18        (2) Access to menstrual feminine hygiene products is a
19    serious and ongoing need in this State.
20        (3) When students do not have access to affordable
21    menstrual feminine hygiene products, they may miss
22    multiple days of school every month.
23        (4) When students have access to quality menstrual
24    feminine hygiene products, they are able to continue with
25    their daily lives with minimal interruption.

 

 

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1    (b) In this Section:
2    "Menstrual hygiene products" "Feminine hygiene products"
3means tampons and sanitary napkins for use in connection with
4the menstrual cycle.
5    "School building" means any facility (i) that is owned or
6leased by the school district or over which the board has care,
7custody, and control and (ii) in which there is a public school
8serving students in grades 6 through 12.
9    (c) The school district shall make menstrual feminine
10hygiene products available, at no cost to students, in each
11bathroom of every school building the bathrooms of school
12buildings.
13(Source: P.A. 100-163, eff. 1-1-18; 100-863, eff. 8-14-18.)
 
14    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
15becoming law.