Bill Text: CA AB10 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Feminine hygiene products: public school restrooms.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Passed) 2017-10-12 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 687, Statutes of 2017. [AB10 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB10-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  March 07, 2017

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 10

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Introduced by Assembly Member Cristina Garcia

December 05, 2016

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An act to amend Section 35292.5 of, and to add Sections 33319.1 and Section 66026.5 to to, the Education Code, and to add Section 50410 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to feminine hygiene products.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 10, as amended, Cristina Garcia. Feminine hygiene products: adequate supply: school and college bathrooms and shelters.

Existing law establishes the State Department of Education in state government, and vests the department with specified powers and duties relating to the state’s public school system, including encouraging and assisting school districts to improve and monitor the health of their pupils.

This bill would require the department to provide public and private schools, including charter schools, with an adequate supply of feminine hygiene products sufficient to meet the needs of all female pupils and to ensure that female pupils have direct access to feminine hygiene products in school bathrooms.

Existing law, with certain exceptions, requires every public and private school, as provided, to have restroom facilities that are open as prescribed during school hours, and at all times to keep every restroom maintained and cleaned regularly, fully operational, and stocked with soap and paper supplies.

This bill would additionally require public and private schools to keep every restroom stocked with feminine hygiene products.

Existing law, the Donahoe Higher Education Act, sets forth, among other things, the missions and functions of California’s public and independent segments of higher education. Provisions of the act apply to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by resolution, act to make them applicable.

This bill would require public and private institutions of higher education, including the California State University, each community college district, and the governing board of each independent institution of higher education, and would encourage the Regents of the University of California, to provide an adequate supply of feminine hygiene products sufficient to meet the needs of female students at each campus in their respective jurisdictions and to ensure that female students have direct access to feminine hygiene products in college bathrooms. By imposing additional duties on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. The department is responsible for administering various housing and home loan programs throughout the state.

This bill would require the department to ensure that each female occupant of specified emergency housing shelters and domestic violence shelters is provided with an adequate supply of feminine hygiene products.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: YES  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.Section 33319.1 is added to the Education Code, to read:

33319.1.

(a)The department shall provide public and private schools, including charter schools, with an adequate supply of feminine hygiene products sufficient to meet the needs of all female pupils and shall ensure that female pupils have direct access to feminine hygiene products in school bathrooms.

(b)For purposes of this section, “feminine hygiene products” means tampons and sanitary napkins for use in connection with the menstrual cycle.

SECTION 1.

 Section 35292.5 of the Education Code is amended to read:

35292.5.

 (a) Every public and private school maintaining any combination of classes from kindergarten to grade 12, inclusive, shall comply with all of the following:

(1) Every restroom shall at all times be maintained and cleaned regularly, fully operational and stocked at all times with toilet paper, feminine hygiene products, soap, and paper towels or functional hand dryers.

(2) The school shall keep all restrooms open during school hours when pupils are not in classes, and shall keep a sufficient number of restrooms open during school hours when pupils are in classes.

(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a school may temporarily close a restroom as necessary for pupil safety or as necessary to repair the facility.

(c) For purposes of this section, “feminine hygiene products” means tampons and sanitary napkins for use in connection with the menstrual cycle.

SEC. 2.

 Section 66026.5 is added to the Education Code, to read:

66026.5.

 (a) Public and private institutions of higher education, including the California State University, each community college district, and the governing board of each independent institution of higher education, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 66010, are required, and the Regents of the University of California are encouraged, to provide an adequate supply of feminine hygiene products sufficient to meet the needs of female students at each campus in their respective jurisdictions and to ensure that female students have direct access to feminine hygiene products in college bathrooms.

(b) For purposes of this section, “feminine hygiene products” means tampons and sanitary napkins for use in connection with the menstrual cycle.

SEC. 3.

 Section 50410 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

50410.

 (a) The department shall ensure that each female occupant of a shelter described in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 18290) of Part 6 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code or Chapter 11.5 (commencing with Section 50800) is provided with an adequate supply of feminine hygiene products.

(b) For purposes of this section, “feminine hygiene products” means tampons and sanitary napkins for use in connection with the menstrual cycle.

SEC. 4.

 If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.