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HI SR78
Resolution
Status
4/5/2023
Primary Sponsor
Joy San Buenaventura
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AI Summary
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Request Department of Accounting and General Services to provide free menstrual products in state buildings open to the public that contain public restrooms.
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Require free menstrual products to be stocked and maintained in all women's restrooms and gender-neutral restrooms of applicable state buildings.
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Install dispensers or similar devices in each restroom to provide free menstrual products.
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If a state building has no gender-neutral restroom, provide free menstrual products in at least one men's restroom and post signage in other men's restrooms indicating the location of free products.
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Resolution cites period poverty affecting 30% of Hawaii households in obtaining menstrual products and notes 43.8% of Hawaii households struggle to pay usual household expenses.
Legislative Description
Requesting The Department Of Accounting And General Services To Provide Menstrual Products At No Cost In State Buildings Under The Jurisdiction Of The Department Of Accounting And General Services That Are Open To The Public And Contain Public Restrooms.
Department of Accounting and General Services
Last Action
Certified copies of resolutions sent.
5/22/2023