AB 230: Menstrual products: Menstrual Equity for All Act of 2021.

Existing law, the Menstrual Equity for All Act of 2021, requires a public school, as provided, maintaining any combination of classes from grades 6 to 12, inclusive, to stock the schools restrooms with an adequate supply of free menstrual products, as defined, available and accessible, free of cost, in all womens restrooms and all-gender restrooms, and in at least one mens restroom, at all times, and to post a certain notice, on or before the start of the 202223 school year, as prescribed.

This bill would extend these requirements, commencing on or before the start of the 202425 school year, to instead apply to public schools maintaining any combination of classes from grades 3 to 12, inclusive. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.