102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB0156
 
Introduced 1/22/2021, by Rep. Barbara Hernandez and Margaret Croke
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
105 ILCS 5/10-20.63
105 ILCS 5/34-18.56

     Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district shall make menstrual (rather than feminine) hygiene products available, at no cost to students, in each bathroom of every school building (rather than in bathrooms of school buildings). Effective immediately.
  


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1    AN ACT concerning education.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended  by changing Sections 
510-20.63 and 34-18.56 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/10-20.63)
7    Sec. 10-20.63. Availability of menstrual feminine hygiene 
8products.
9    (a) The General Assembly finds the following:
10        (1) Menstrual Feminine hygiene products are a health 
11    care necessity and not an item that can be foregone or 
12    substituted easily.
13        (2) Access to menstrual feminine hygiene products is a 
14    serious and ongoing need in this State.
15        (3) When students do not have access to affordable 
16    menstrual feminine hygiene products, they may miss 
17    multiple days of school every month.
18        (4) When students have access to quality menstrual 
19    feminine hygiene products, they are able to continue with 
20    their daily lives with minimal interruption.
21    (b)  In this Section:
22    "Menstrual hygiene products" "Feminine hygiene products" 
23means tampons and sanitary napkins for use in connection with 
 
 
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1the menstrual cycle.
2    "School building" means any facility (i) that is owned or 
3leased by a school district or over which the school board has 
4care, custody, and control and (ii) in which there is a public 
5school serving students in grades 6 through 12.
6    (c)  A school district shall make menstrual feminine 
7hygiene products available, at no cost to students, in each 
8bathroom of every school building the bathrooms of school 
9buildings. 

10(Source: P.A. 100-163, eff. 1-1-18; 100-863, eff. 8-14-18.)
 
11    (105 ILCS 5/34-18.56)
12    Sec. 34-18.56. Availability of menstrual feminine hygiene 
13products.
14    (a) The General Assembly finds the following:
15        (1) Menstrual Feminine hygiene products are a health 
16    care necessity and not an item that can be foregone or 
17    substituted easily.
18        (2) Access to menstrual feminine hygiene products is a 
19    serious and ongoing need in this State.
20        (3) When students do not have access to affordable 
21    menstrual feminine hygiene products, they may miss 
22    multiple days of school every month.
23        (4) When students have access to quality menstrual 
24    feminine hygiene products, they are able to continue with 
25    their daily lives with minimal interruption.
 
 
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1    (b)  In this Section:
2    "Menstrual hygiene products" "Feminine hygiene products" 
3means tampons and sanitary napkins for use in connection with 
4the menstrual cycle. 
5    "School building" means any facility (i) that is owned or 
6leased by the school district or over which the board has care, 
7custody, and control and (ii) in which there is a public school 
8serving students in grades 6 through 12.
9    (c)  The school district shall make menstrual feminine 
10hygiene products available, at no cost to students, in each 
11bathroom of every school building the bathrooms of school 
12buildings. 

13(Source: P.A. 100-163, eff. 1-1-18; 100-863, eff. 8-14-18.)
 
 
14    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
15becoming law.