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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="7-449" title_number="7" title_name="Public Schools" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Health and Safety of Students">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “menstrual hygiene products” means size–appropriate tampons or sanitary napkins for use in connection with the menstrual cycle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Subject to subsection (c) of this section, each county board shall ensure that each public school provide, at no charge to students, menstrual hygiene products via dispensers in the women’s restrooms at the school.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A public middle or high school shall install menstrual hygiene product dispensers in:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>At least two women’s restrooms on or before October 1, 2022; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>On or before August 1, 2025, all women’s restrooms.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A public elementary school shall install menstrual hygiene product dispensers in at least one restroom on or before October 1, 2022.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State shall reimburse a county board for the costs of purchasing and installing menstrual hygiene product dispensers to comply with the requirements of subsection (c) of this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each county board shall submit to the Department a request for reimbursement for the costs of purchasing and installing menstrual hygiene product dispensers to comply with the requirements of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Subsection (c)(1)(i) and (2) of this section, on or before November 1, 2022; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Subsection (c)(1)(ii) of this section, on or before September 1, 2025.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>For fiscal year 2023, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $500,000 to be used to reimburse each county board for the costs reported to the Department under paragraph (2) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
