Packages of Tampax brand tampons on a drugstore shelf in New York on Wednesday, February 10, 2016. A bill making its way through the Utah legislature would eliminate tax on tampons and other feminine hygiene products. 40 states currently impose a sales tax on feminine hygiene products and there is also a bill under consideration in California to eliminate the tax. (�� Richard B. Levine) (Photo by Richard Levine/Corbis via Getty Images)
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">TSR Politics: California public schools and colleges will be required to stock their restrooms with free menstrual products under a bill signed today by Governor Gavin Newsom.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This new law builds on a 2017 one that requires low-income schools in disadvantaged areas to provide students with free menstrual products, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-gavin-newsom-california-health-legislature-a09e5bf7d64de01c308097383130b7c0">Associated Press.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This new bill expands the law to include grades 6 to 12, community colleges and the California State University and University of California systems, starting in the 2022-23 school year. The bill also encourages private schools and colleges to follow suit.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Our biology doesn’t always send an advanced warning when we’re about to start menstruating, which often means we need to stop whatever we’re doing and deal with a period,” Democratic Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia said about her legislation. “Just as toilet paper and paper towels are provided in virtually every public [bathroom], so should menstrual products.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">California is not alone in this movement. Purdue University in Indiana decided last year to offer free feminine hygiene products in its campus bathrooms.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“California joins a growing number of states who lead the way in demonstrating that menstrual equity is a matter of human rights,” the advocacy group PERIOD said in a statement. “No student should ever lose learning time due to their periods, period.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">California also previously repealed a tax on menstrual products that was costing women an estimated aggregate $20 million a year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Newsom has had a busy week. He’s signed several other bills into law including one that outlaws <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/california-becomes-the-first-state-to-outlaw-nonconsensual-condom-removal-with-bill-ab-453/">nonconsensual condom removal</a>, which was lauded by many.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He also signed a <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/governor-newsom-signs-momnibus-act-which-will-provide-mothers-with-access-to-postpartum-health-care-doula-services-and-more/">bill</a> that will provide mothers access to postpartum care and doula services.</span></p>
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