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MA H2483
Bill
Status
2/27/2025
Primary Sponsor
Jay Livingstone
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AI Summary
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Requires all temporary housing assistance providers (family shelters, adult shelters, emergency hotels, domestic violence shelters, homeless youth shelters, refugee safe houses) to provide free disposable menstrual products to residents
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Mandates every primary and secondary school in Massachusetts provide free disposable menstrual products to students, including in restrooms
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Requires all correctional and detention facilities (jails, houses of correction, state prisons, police lock-ups) to provide free menstrual products to incarcerated individuals
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Defines disposable menstrual products as sanitary napkins, tampons, and underwear liners
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All covered facilities must make products available in a "convenient manner that does not stigmatize" individuals seeking them
Legislative Description
To increase access to disposable menstrual products
Last Action
Accompanied a new draft, see H4611
10/20/2025