Bill Text: WV HB5661 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-13 - To House Education [HB5661 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB5661-Introduced.html

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WEST virginia legislature

2024 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 5661

By Delegates Young and Hamilton

[Introduced; Introduced February 13, 2024; Referred to the Committee on Education then Finance]

 

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-5-52, relating to providing free feminine hygiene products to female students in public schools.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

 

ARTICLE 5. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

 

§18-5-52.  Free feminine hygiene products for students.

County boards of education in this state shall provide students free access to feminine hygiene products in all public schools.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide free feminine hygiene products to students in public schools.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.