Bill Text: VA SB232 | 2020 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Menstrual supplies; school boards shall make available in each school building.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-04-06 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) [SB232 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2020-SB232-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-6.1 as follows:
§22.1-6.1. Menstrual supplies; availability; public elementary, middle, and high schools.
A. As used in this section, "menstrual supplies" means tampons or pads for use in connection with the menstrual cycle.
B. Each school board shall make menstrual supplies available, at all times and at no cost to students, in such accessible locations as it deems appropriate in each elementary school in the local school division.
C. Each school board shall make menstrual supplies available, at all times and at no cost to students, in the bathrooms of each middle school and high school in the local school division.