Bill Text: NH HB415 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Removing requirements that schools provide menstrual products in restrooms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-05 - Executive Session: 02/12/2025 09:30 am Legislative Office Building 205-207 [HB415 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB415-Introduced.html

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HB 415-FN - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0776

02/09

 

HOUSE BILL 415-FN

 

AN ACT removing requirements that schools provide menstrual products in restrooms.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Peternel, Carr. 6; Rep. Colcombe, Hills. 30; Rep. Edwards, Rock. 31; Rep. Harvey-Bolia, Belk. 3; Rep. Seidel, Hills. 29

 

COMMITTEE: Education Policy and Administration

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill repeals the requirement that school districts provide menstrual hygiene products at no cost.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0776

02/09

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT removing requirements that schools provide menstrual products in restrooms.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Repeal.  RSA 189:16-a, relative to menstrual hygiene products in schools, is repealed.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

 

LBA

25-0776

1/1/25

 

HB 415-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT removing requirements that schools provide menstrual products in restrooms.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:      

Estimated Political Subdivision Impact
	FY 2025	FY 2026	FY 2027	FY 2028
Local Revenue	$0	$0	$0	$0
Local Expenditures	$0	Indeterminable

 

METHODOLOGY:

This bill eliminates the requirement that school districts provides menstrual hygiene products. To the extent school districts choose to stop providing such products, there could be a cost savings.  The impact of this bill, if any, is indeterminable as it would vary from district to district.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

None