Bill Text: WV HB5661 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-13 - To House Education [HB5661 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB5661-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2024 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 5661
By Delegates Young and Hamilton
[Introduced; Introduced February 13, 2024; Referred to the Committee on Education then Finance]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-5-52, relating to providing free feminine hygiene products to female students in public schools.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 5. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
§18-5-52. Free feminine hygiene products for students.
County boards of education in this state shall provide students free access to feminine hygiene products in all public schools.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide free feminine hygiene products to students in public schools.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
