HOUSE BILL 151

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2025

INTRODUCED BY

Marianna Anaya

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

RELATING TO STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; REQUIRING STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO PROVIDE MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS IN CAMPUS BATHROOMS; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. A new section of Chapter 21, Article 1 NMSA 1978 is enacted to read: 

     "[NEW MATERIAL] FREE MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS IN STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.--

          A. As used in this section, "menstrual product" means a sanitary pad or tampon.

          B. Menstrual products shall be provided at no charge to students in each women's bathroom, each gender-neutral bathroom and at least one men's bathroom in every state educational institution enumerated in Article 12, Section 11 of the constitution of New Mexico."

     SECTION 2. APPROPRIATION.--One million dollars ($1,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the higher education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2026 for disbursement to each state educational institution enumerated in Article 12, Section 11 of the constitution of the New Mexico based on the proportion of female students for the purchase and installment of menstrual product dispensers and the purchase and distribution of menstrual products to state educational institutions statewide. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2026 shall revert to the general fund.

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