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MA S1549
Bill
Status
2/27/2025
Primary Sponsor
Patricia Jehlen
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AI Summary
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Requires all primary and secondary schools in Massachusetts to provide free disposable menstrual products (sanitary napkins, tampons, underwear liners) to students in restrooms and other convenient, non-stigmatizing locations
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Mandates temporary housing providers—including family shelters, adult shelters, emergency hotels, domestic violence shelters, runaway youth shelters, and refugee safe houses—to offer free menstrual products to residents
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Requires all correctional and detention facilities (jails, prisons, lock-ups, state police detention facilities) to provide free menstrual products to incarcerated individuals
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Products must be made available in a manner that does not stigmatize individuals seeking them
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Filed by Senator Patricia D. Jehlen on January 15, 2025, with bipartisan support from 15 co-sponsors; similar legislation was introduced in the previous 2023-2024 session
Legislative Description
To increase access to disposable menstrual products
Last Action
Accompanied a new draft, see S2546
7/10/2025