HB 120 INCARCERATED PERSON MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS

Rep Janelle I Anyanonu

Actions: HPREF [2] HCPAC/HAFC-HCPAC [3] DP-HAFC

Scheduled: Not Scheduled

 House Bill 120 (HB 120) appropriates two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) to the Corrections Department to provide menstrual products to incarcerated persons.
 

 House Bill 120 (HB 120) appropriates two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) from the General Fund (GF) to the Corrections Department for expenditure in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 for the purchase of menstrual products for incarcerated persons

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY 2025 reverts to the GF.

 

 As of 2019, thirty-eight states have no law requiring the provision of menstrual products to incarcerated people. As of 2023, the federal Bureau of Prisons now provides sanitary napkins and tampons at no charge