Starting in the 2022-2023 school year, public schools and colleges in California will be required to stock their restrooms with free menstrual products under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Oct. 8.
The law, known as the Menstrual Equity for All Act, builds upon a 2017 law that requires schools in low-income areas to provide students with free tampons and menstrual pads. It expands the existing law to include every public school with grades 6 through 12 to maintain “an adequate supply of free menstrual products in all women’s restrooms and all-gender restrooms, and in at least one men’s restroom.”
