Bill Text: TX HB3172 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the availability of menstrual products and lactation rooms at public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-15 - Referred to Higher Education [HB3172 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3172-Introduced.html
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| By: Bucy | H.B. No. 3172 | |
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| relating to the availability of menstrual products and lactation | ||
| rooms at public institutions of higher education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Sections 51.9185 and 51.9186 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.9185. AVAILABILITY OF MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS. (a) In | ||
| this section: | ||
| (1) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
| (2) "Menstrual products" means tampons and sanitary | ||
| napkins for use in connection with the menstrual cycle. | ||
| (b) Each institution of higher education shall make | ||
| menstrual products available free of charge in each public women's | ||
| restroom and public all-gender restroom located on the | ||
| institution's campus, including in on-campus residence halls. | ||
| Sec. 51.9186. AVAILABILITY OF LACTATION ROOMS. (a) In this | ||
| section, "institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned | ||
| by Section 61.003. | ||
| (b) Each institution of higher education shall make | ||
| available free of charge at convenient locations on the | ||
| institution's campus a sufficient number of lactation rooms for a | ||
| student or employee of the institution to: | ||
| (1) express breast milk; | ||
| (2) breast-feed an infant child; and | ||
| (3) address other needs related to breast-feeding. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| academic year. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
