PRINTER'S NO. 1177
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1101
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY PARKER, HILL-EVANS, HANBIDGE, HOWARD, McNEILL,
MADDEN, SCHLOSSBERG, ISAACSON, KINKEAD, KHAN, SANCHEZ,
PROBST, HOHENSTEIN, DEASY, KENYATTA, OTTEN, RABB, MAYES,
BOYD, CURRY, CERRATO, DONAHUE, RIVERA, O'MARA, PASHINSKI,
BOROWSKI, WAXMAN, HARKINS, SHUSTERMAN, GIRAL, VENKAT, BURGOS,
T. DAVIS, YOUNG, STEELE AND GUENST, MARCH 31, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES, MARCH 31, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," in school health services, providing
6 for Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Grant Program;
7 and making an appropriation.
8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
9 hereby enacts as follows:
10 Section 1. The act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known
11 as the Public School Code of 1949, is amended by adding a
12 section to read:
13 Section 1426. Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Grant
14 Program.--(a) The Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility
15 Grant Program is established in the department.
16 (b) The department shall implement and administer the
17 program. The department, in consultation with the Department of
18 Health, shall develop a grant application form for eligible
 1 public school entities that seek a grant under the program. At a
2 minimum, the form shall contain the following information:
3 (1) The number of students enrolled at the eligible public
4 school entity.
5 (2) The number of restrooms accessible to students on the
6 property of the eligible public school entity.
7 (c) A public school entity shall be eligible to receive a
8 grant under the program if the public school entity has twenty-
9 five percent (25%) or more students enrolled in free or reduced-
10 cost lunch under 42 U.S.C. Ch. 13 (relating to school lunch
11 programs).
12 (d) After review of the information provided in each
13 eligible public school entity's submitted application, the
14 department shall award money from the program to the eligible
15 public school entity and, if so, the amount of the program money
16 awarded to each eligible entity. Grants shall be awarded in an
17 amount that is proportionate to the number of students and
18 restrooms specified in the eligible public school entity's
19 application.
20 (e) A grant recipient shall:
21 (1) Use the grant award to acquire and distribute menstrual
22 hygiene products at no expense to students, including installing
23 and maintaining a dispensing machine or disposal receptacle for
24 menstrual hygiene products.
25 (2) Ensure that menstrual hygiene products are accessible to
26 students.
27 (f) The following shall apply:
28 (1) Within one year of being awarded a grant, each grant
29 recipient shall report to the department the amount of money
30 spent on the acquisition and distribution of menstrual hygiene
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 1 products and the amount of money spent on the installation and
2 maintenance of a dispensing machine or disposal receptacle for
3 menstrual hygiene products.
4 (2) By March 31 of each year, the department shall submit a
5 summarized report from new information received under paragraph
6 (1) since the previous report to the Education Committee of the
7 Senate, the Education Committee of the House of Representatives,
8 the Health and Human Services Committee of the Senate and the
9 Health Committee of the House of Representatives.
10 (g) The department, in consultation with the Department of
11 Health, may issue guidance necessary to implement the program.
12 (h) As used in this section, the following words and phrases
13 shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection unless
14 the context clearly indicates otherwise:
15 "Department" means the Department of Education of the
16 Commonwealth.
17 "Menstrual hygiene products" means tampons, sanitary napkins
18 or pads, pantyliners and similar menstrual hygiene products.
19 "Program" means the Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility
20 Grant Program established under subsection (a).
21 "Public school entity" means a school district, charter
22 school, regional charter school, intermediate unit or area
23 career and technical school operating within this Commonwealth.
24 Section 2. The General Assembly shall appropriate money from
25 the General Fund to the Department of Education for the fiscal
26 year July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, for the purposes of funding
27 the Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Grant Program.
28 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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Statutes/Laws affected:
Printer's No. 1177: P.L.30, No.14