PRINTER'S NO. 292
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 337
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY GREEN, PARKER, KHAN, KINKEAD, WAXMAN, SANCHEZ,
PROBST, HOHENSTEIN, GIRAL, HILL-EVANS, DONAHUE, FRANKEL,
OTTEN, O'MARA, STEELE AND CERRATO, JANUARY 27, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 27, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; providing for judicial administration; and
18 prescribing the manner in which the number and compensation
19 of the deputies and all other assistants and employes of
20 certain departments, boards and commissions shall be
21 determined," in powers and duties of the Department of
22 General Services and its departmental administrative and
23 advisory boards and commissions, providing for menstrual
24 hygiene products in State buildings.
25 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
26 hereby enacts as follows:
27 Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known
28 as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a
 1 section to read:
2 Section 2422. Menstrual Hygiene Products in State
3 Buildings.--(a) Except as provided under subsections (b) and
4 (e), the Department of General Services shall make menstrual
5 hygiene products available and install and maintain a dispensing
6 machine and disposal receptacles for menstrual hygiene products
7 in at least fifty per centum (50%) of bathrooms in all State
8 buildings.
9 (b) The Department of General Services shall not be required
10 to install and maintain new disposal receptacles for menstrual
11 hygiene products under subsection (a) in a bathroom in a State
12 building if disposal receptacles for menstrual hygiene products
13 are in suitable conditions and already located in the bathroom
14 before or on the effective date of this subsection.
15 (c) The Department of General Services shall make menstrual
16 hygiene products under subsection (a) available to the general
17 public and free of charge.
18 (d) The Department of General Services shall develop and
19 post signage to make the general public aware that menstrual
20 products are available free of charge in at least fifty per
21 centum (50%) of bathrooms in all State buildings.
22 (e) The requirement under subsection (a) shall not apply to
23 any of the following:
24 (1) A State building that does not contain a bathroom.
25 (2) A State building that is not regularly occupied or in
26 use, including any of the following:
27 (i) A salt storage facility.
28 (ii) An unoccupied storage building.
29 (iii) A maintenance shed.
30 (iv) A temporary structure.
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1 (f) The Department of General Services may adopt guidelines
2 as necessary to implement this section.
3 (g) As used in this section:
4 "Menstrual hygiene product" means a tampon, sanitary napkin
5 or pad.
6 "State building" means a building owned by the Commonwealth
7 and maintained by the Department of General Services.
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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Statutes/Laws affected:
Printer's No. 0292: P.L.177, No.175