HB 337 — An Act amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, in powers and duties of the Department of General Services and its departmental administrative and advisory boards and commissions, providing for menstrual hygiene products in State buildings.

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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