It goes into impact for the 2022-23 faculty yr and expands on a earlier regulation which required low-income colleges to supply free menstrual hygiene merchandise.
“California acknowledges that entry to menstrual merchandise is a fundamental human proper and is significant for making certain the well being, dignity, and full participation of all Californians in public life,” the regulation says.
The regulation additionally requires California State College — a system of 23 campuses across the state — and every neighborhood school district to inventory an enough provide of free menstrual merchandise in not less than one designated and accessible central location on Campus. It encourages the Regents of the College of California and personal establishments within the state to take comparable steps.
“Our biology does not all the time ship a complicated warning after we’re about to begin menstruating, which regularly means we have to cease no matter we’re doing and take care of a interval. Usually intervals arrive at inconvenient occasions,” mentioned Assemblymember Cristina Garcia, the laws’s creator, in a press release. “Having handy and free entry to those merchandise means our interval will not stop us from being productive members of society, and would alleviate the nervousness of looking for a product when out in public.”
The state has additionally eradicated taxation of menstrual merchandise, which Garcia mentioned price Californians born with a uterus greater than $20 million a yr.
