HB 19-1224 Summary

• Requires correctional facilities, private contract prisons, local jails, multijurisdictional jails, and municipal jails to provide tampons, menstrual pads, sanitary napkins, and pantiliners to people in custody at no expense.

• Prohibits facilities from imposing any conditions or restrictions on incarcerated individuals' access to menstrual hygiene products.

• Applies to Department of Human Services facilities housing people in custody.

• Requires counties and cities to report menstrual hygiene product costs to the joint budget committee as a separate expense category.

• Declares the act necessary for immediate preservation of public peace, health, and safety.