Newsom Signs Bill Requiring Free Tampons in California Public Schools — Including Boy’s Bathrooms
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill requiring public schools and colleges to stock free menstrual products — including boy’s restrooms.
The bill expands on one signed in 2017 that required free pads and tampons in schools for low-income areas.
“This bill would enact the Menstrual Equity for All Act of 2021, which would require a public school, as provided, maintaining any combination of classes from grades 6 to 12, inclusive, to stock the school’s restrooms with an adequate supply of free menstrual products, as defined, available and accessible, free of cost, in all women’s restrooms and all-gender restrooms, and in at least one men’s restroom, at all times, and to post a designated notice, on or before the start of the 2022–23 school year,
