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MA H4611
Bill
Status
10/20/2025
Primary Sponsor
Joint Committee on Public Health
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AI Summary
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Requires free disposable menstrual products (sanitary napkins, tampons, underwear liners) in all Commonwealth-owned or occupied public agency buildings through the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance
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Mandates all public institutions of higher education provide free menstrual products to students in accessible locations including restrooms
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Requires temporary housing providers—including family shelters, domestic violence shelters, homeless youth shelters, emergency hotels, and refugee safe houses—to offer free menstrual products
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Applies to all primary and secondary schools, which must provide free menstrual products to students in accessible, non-stigmatizing locations
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Extends coverage to correctional and detention facilities, requiring administrators of jails, prisons, lock-ups, and state police detention facilities to provide free products to incarcerated individuals
Legislative Description
To increase access to disposable menstrual products
Last Action
Committee recommended bill ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
12/4/2025