Bill Text: IL HB0922 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district shall make 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.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-18 - Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Natalie A. Manley [HB0922 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB0922-Engrossed.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | ||||||
| 5 | 10-20.63 and 34-18.56 as follows:
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| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/10-20.63) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 10-20.63. Availability of feminine hygiene products. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) The General Assembly finds the following: | ||||||
| 9 | (1) Feminine hygiene products are a health care | ||||||
| 10 | necessity and not an item that can be foregone or | ||||||
| 11 | substituted easily. | ||||||
| 12 | (2) Access to feminine hygiene products is a serious | ||||||
| 13 | and ongoing need in this State. | ||||||
| 14 | (3) When students do not have access to affordable | ||||||
| 15 | feminine hygiene products, they may miss multiple days of | ||||||
| 16 | school every month. | ||||||
| 17 | (4) When students have access to quality feminine | ||||||
| 18 | hygiene products, they are able to continue with their | ||||||
| 19 | daily lives with minimal interruption. | ||||||
| 20 | (b) In this Section: | ||||||
| 21 | "Feminine hygiene products" means tampons and sanitary | ||||||
| 22 | napkins for use in connection with the menstrual cycle. | ||||||
| 23 | "School building" means any facility (i) that is owned or | ||||||
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| 1 | leased by a school district or over which the school board has | ||||||
| 2 | care, custody, and control and (ii) in which there is a public | ||||||
| 3 | school serving students in grades 6 through 12. | ||||||
| 4 | (c) A school district shall make feminine hygiene products | ||||||
| 5 | available, at no cost to students, in each bathroom of every | ||||||
| 6 | school building the bathrooms of school buildings.
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| 7 | (Source: P.A. 100-163, eff. 1-1-18; 100-863, eff. 8-14-18.)
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| 8 | (105 ILCS 5/34-18.56) | ||||||
| 9 | Sec. 34-18.56. Availability of feminine hygiene products. | ||||||
| 10 | (a) The General Assembly finds the following: | ||||||
| 11 | (1) Feminine hygiene products are a health care | ||||||
| 12 | necessity and not an item that can be foregone or | ||||||
| 13 | substituted easily. | ||||||
| 14 | (2) Access to feminine hygiene products is a serious | ||||||
| 15 | and ongoing need in this State. | ||||||
| 16 | (3) When students do not have access to affordable | ||||||
| 17 | feminine hygiene products, they may miss multiple days of | ||||||
| 18 | school every month. | ||||||
| 19 | (4) When students have access to quality feminine | ||||||
| 20 | hygiene products, they are able to continue with their | ||||||
| 21 | daily lives with minimal interruption. | ||||||
| 22 | (b) In this Section: | ||||||
| 23 | "Feminine hygiene products" means tampons and sanitary | ||||||
| 24 | napkins for use in connection with the menstrual cycle. | ||||||
| 25 | "School building" means any facility (i) that is owned or | ||||||
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| 1 | leased by the school district or over which the board has care, | ||||||
| 2 | custody, and control and (ii) in which there is a public school | ||||||
| 3 | serving students in grades 6 through 12. | ||||||
| 4 | (c) The school district shall make feminine hygiene | ||||||
| 5 | products available, at no cost to students, in each bathroom of | ||||||
| 6 | every school building the bathrooms of school buildings.
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| 7 | (Source: P.A. 100-163, eff. 1-1-18; 100-863, eff. 8-14-18.)
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| 8 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 9 | becoming law.
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