Title: Menstrual Equity in the Peace Corps Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Menstrual Equity in the Peace Corps Act
This bill requires the Peace Corps to ensure access to menstrual products for its volunteers who require them, either by increasing stipends for these products or providing these products to its volunteers.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1467 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1467

To amend the Peace Corps Act to ensure access to menstrual products for 
            Peace Corps volunteers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2021

  Ms. Meng (for herself, Ms. Speier, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. 
 Garcia of Texas, Ms. Kuster, Mr. Carson, Mr. Cooper, Ms. Schakowsky, 
 Ms. Lee of California, Ms. Dean, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Titus, Mr. Connolly, 
Ms. Norton, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Case, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Ocasio-
    Cortez, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Keating, Mr. Garamendi, Ms. 
Pressley, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, 
and Mr. Hastings) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Peace Corps Act to ensure access to menstrual products for 
            Peace Corps volunteers, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Menstrual Equity in the Peace Corps 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ACCESS TO MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS FOR PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS.

    Section 5A of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2504a) is amended--
            (1) by transferring subsection (e) (relating to 
        antimalarial drugs) to appear immediately after subsection (b) 
        and redesignating such transferred subsection as the first 
        subsection (c);
            (2) in such first subsection (c), as so redesignated and 
        transferred, by striking ``The Director'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) In general.--The Director'';
            (3) in the second subsection (c) (relating to certain 
        training), by--
                    (A) redesignating such second subsection (c) as 
                paragraph (2); and
                    (B) moving such paragraph (2) two ems to the right;
            (4) by redesignating subsection (d) (relating to review and 
        evaluation) as subsection (e); and
            (5) by inserting before such redesignated subsection (e) 
        the following new subsection:
    ``(d) Access to Menstrual Products.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
        of the enactment of this subsection, the Director of the Peace 
        Corps shall establish a comprehensive policy to ensure Peace 
        Corps volunteers who require menstrual products are able to 
        access such products, either by increasing stipends for such 
        volunteers to purchase such products or providing such 
        volunteers with such products in the generic product types 
        selected by such volunteer as their preferences.
            ``(2) Consideration.--The policy required under paragraph 
        (1) shall take into consideration the availability of menstrual 
        products for purchase locally, the price of such products, and 
        cultural norms regarding menstruation.
            ``(3) Cost.--If stipends are increased pursuant to the 
        policy required under paragraph (1), the Director of the Peace 
        Corps shall ensure that such increase covers fully the cost of 
        menstrual products purchased by Peace Corps volunteers 
        described in such paragraph.''.
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