103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB2874

 

Introduced 1/24/2024, by Sen. Jil Tracy

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/10-20.63
105 ILCS 5/34-18.56

    Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district may (instead of shall) make menstrual hygiene products available, at no cost to students, in bathrooms of every school building that are open for student use in grades 4 through 12 during the regular school day. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
510-20.63 and 34-18.56 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/10-20.63)
7    Sec. 10-20.63. Availability of menstrual hygiene products.
8    (a) The General Assembly finds the following:
9        (1) Menstrual hygiene products are a health care
10    necessity and not an item that can be foregone or
11    substituted easily.
12        (2) Access to menstrual hygiene products is a serious
13    and ongoing need in this State.
14        (3) When students do not have access to affordable
15    menstrual hygiene products, they may miss multiple days of
16    school every month.
17        (4) When students have access to quality menstrual
18    hygiene products, they are able to continue with their
19    daily lives with minimal interruption.
20    (b) In this Section:
21    "Menstrual hygiene products" means tampons and sanitary
22napkins for use in connection with the menstrual cycle.
23    "School building" means any facility (i) that is owned or

 

 

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1leased by a school district or over which the school board has
2care, custody, and control and (ii) in which there is a public
3school serving students in grades 6 through 12.
4    (c) A school district may shall make menstrual hygiene
5products available, at no cost to students, in bathrooms of
6every school building that are open for student use in grades 4
7through 12 during the regular school day.
8(Source: P.A. 102-340, eff. 8-13-21.)
 
9    (105 ILCS 5/34-18.56)
10    Sec. 34-18.56. Availability of menstrual hygiene products.
11    (a) The General Assembly finds the following:
12        (1) Menstrual hygiene products are a health care
13    necessity and not an item that can be foregone or
14    substituted easily.
15        (2) Access to menstrual hygiene products is a serious
16    and ongoing need in this State.
17        (3) When students do not have access to affordable
18    menstrual hygiene products, they may miss multiple days of
19    school every month.
20        (4) When students have access to quality menstrual
21    hygiene products, they are able to continue with their
22    daily lives with minimal interruption.
23    (b) In this Section:
24    "Menstrual hygiene products" means tampons and sanitary
25napkins for use in connection with the menstrual cycle.

 

 

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1    "School building" means any facility (i) that is owned or
2leased by the school district or over which the board has care,
3custody, and control and (ii) in which there is a public school
4serving students in grades 6 through 12.
5    (c) The school district may shall make menstrual hygiene
6products available, at no cost to students, in bathrooms of
7every school building that are open for student use in grades 4
8through 12 during the regular school day.
9(Source: P.A. 102-340, eff. 8-13-21.)
 
10    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
11becoming law.