Bill Text: NJ A2318 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes requirements for State to enter into contract for purchase of menstrual products.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-13 - Reported and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee [A2318 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A2318-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman LISA SWAIN
District 38 (Bergen)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblywomen Speight, Murphy, Assemblyman Stanley and Assemblywoman Reynolds-Jackson
SYNOPSIS
Establishes requirements for State to enter into contract for purchase of menstrual products.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning menstrual products and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Director of the Division of Purchase and Property in the Department of the Treasury shall review all State purchasing arrangements, contracts, and initiatives, and shall consider options to maximize the State's bargaining power with regard to menstrual products, which may include recommending appropriate statutory, administrative, or executive actions as may be necessary to reduce the cost of purchasing menstrual products to State programs and entities.
b. The director shall, at the request of a State department, division, office, or agency, advertise for and award a contract to purchase menstrual products. The contract shall be available for use by all executive branch entities and cooperative purchasing participants.
c. As used in this act:
"Cooperative purchasing participants" means, collectively, interstate cooperative purchasing participants and intrastate cooperative purchasing participants.
"Director" means Director of the Division of Purchase and Property.
"Interstate cooperative purchasing participants" means another state or other states, or political divisions thereof, which pursuant to laws and regulations therein are permitted to utilize contracts awarded by the Director.
"Intrastate cooperative purchasing participants" means political subdivisions, volunteer fire departments and first aid squads, and independent institutions of higher education and school districts pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1969, c.104 (C.52:25-16.1), State and county colleges pursuant to section 9 of P.L.1986, c.43 (C.18A:64-60) and section 9 of P.L.1982, c.189 (C.18A:64A-25.9), quasi-State agencies and independent authorities pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1959, c.40 (C.52:27B-56.1), and other New Jersey public entities having statutory authority to utilize select State contracts issued by the Division of Purchase and Property.
"Menstrual product" means any product that meets applicable industry standards and is designed specifically for the absorption or containment of menses, which includes, but is not limited to: pads, pantiliners, tampons, and menstrual cups.
2. a. A non-profit entity may, at the director's discretion, purchase menstrual products under any contract awarded for the purchase of menstrual products on behalf of the State by the director, subject to such rules as the director may establish.
b. The director may establish limitations with respect to the menstrual products available for purchase and impose other appropriate conditions upon purchasing as the director deems necessary to protect the State's purchasing interests.
c. The non-profit entity shall file such reports as the director may require setting forth the expenditures on such contracts.
3. The Director of Purchase and Property in the Department of the Treasury may, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations as the director deems necessary for the implementation of this act.
4. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Director of the Division of Purchase and Property (director) in the Department of the Treasury to review all State purchasing arrangements, contracts, and initiatives, and consider options to maximize the State's bargaining power with regard to menstrual products, which may include recommending appropriate statutory, administrative, or executive actions as may be necessary to reduce the cost of purchasing menstrual products to State programs and entities.
The bill further provides that the director will, at the request of a State department, division, office, or agency, advertise for and award a contract for the purchase of menstrual products. This contract will be available for use by all executive branch entities and cooperative purchasing participants.
The bill additionally permits, at the director's discretion, a non-profit entity to purchase menstrual products under any contract awarded for the purchase of menstrual products on behalf of the State by the director, subject to any rules the director may establish. The director may establish limitations with respect to the menstrual products available for purchase and impose other appropriate conditions upon purchasing as deemed necessary to protect the State's purchasing interests. A non-profit entity that purchases menstrual products under such contracts will file reports as the director may require setting forth the expenditures on such contracts.
