2025 Regular Session
Link to Bill History on Legacy Website (Click Here)Summary: To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students
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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 2838
By Delegates Young and Kump
[Introduced February 24, 2025; referred to the Committee on Education then Finance]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding a new section, designated §18-5-52, relating to feminine hygiene products; and providing feminine hygiene products to students in public schools at no cost.
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.