An Act to Make Menstrual Products Available in Ce1tain Schools
Maine Legislature, Session 131, LD 0348
Committee Amendment CA_A_SA_A_S738 (Senate)

SENATE AMENDMENT" A "to H.P. 222, L.D. 348, "An Act to Make Menstrual 
Products Available in Ce1tain Schools" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'Resolve, to Establish a Pilot Program to Make Menstrual Products Available in 
Certain Schools' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and insetting the following: 
'Sec. 1. Access to menstrual products. Resolved: That, for the 2024-2025 
school year only, a school administrative unit shall require its schools that serve students 
in any of grades 6 to 12 to make available menstrual products to students at no cost. For 
purposes of this resolve, "menstrual products" means tampons and sanitary pads used with 
respect to menstruation and "school administrative unit" has the same meaning as in the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 1, subsection 26. 
Sec. 2. 
Reimbursement for menstrual products. 
Resolved: That the 
Department of Education shall develop a process to provide reimbursement to those school 
administrative units that, but for the requirement in section 1 that schools that serve students 
in any of grades 6 to 12 make available menstrual products to students at no cost for the 
2024-2025 school year only, would not have made the menstrual products available to the 
students. Reimbursement must be provided to those school administrative units at 90% of 
the expenses incurred by those school administrative units to purchase the menstrual 
products. 
Sec. 3. Coinless dispensers. Resolved: That the Depa1tment of Education shall 
reimburse school administrative units that choose to install coinless dispensers of menstrual 
products, which dispense menstrual products without cost to the person obtaining the 
menstrual products, in school bathrooms until funding appropriated for this purpose 
pursuant to section 5 has been exhausted. 
Sec. 4. Report. Resolved: That, by January 15, 2026, the Depa1tment of Education 
shall submit a report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction 
over education matters that includes data pursuant to the pilot program in this resolve on 
the number of school administrative units that requested reimbursement pursuant to 
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sections 2 and 3 for the purchase of menstrual products and coinless dispensers during the 
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SENATE AMENDMENT "/Ji "to H.P. 222, L.D. 348 ( S-731) 
2024-2025 school year; the number of menstrual products and coinless dispensers 
purchased during the 2024-2025 school year; the total expenditures for menstrual products 
and for coinless dispensers during the 2024-2025 school year; and any recommendations 
for legislation to implement the provision of access to menstrual products on an ongoing 
basis, including the amount of funding necessa1y. 
Sec. 5. 
Appropriations and allocations. Resolved: That the following 
appropriations and allocations are made. 
EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
Menstrual Products Reimbursement N391 
Initiative: Provides one-time funds to reimburse school administrative units that serve 
students in grades 6 to 12 for the cost of making menstrual products available to students 
at no cost during the 2024-2025 school year only. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
Menstrual Products Reimbursement N391 
2023-24 
$0 
$0 
2024-25 
$272,999 
$272,999 
Initiative: Provides one-time funds to reimburse school administrative units that choose to 
install dispensers of menstrual products in school bathrooms during the 2024-2025 school 
year only. Reimbursement will be provided until funding appropriated for this purpose has 
been exhausted. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
GENERAL FUND 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL-ALL FUNDS 
2023-24 
$0 
$0 
2023-24 
$0 
$0 
2024-25 
$27,001 
$27,001 
2024-25 
$300,000 
$300,000 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section 
number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment replaces the bill with a resolve to establish a one-year pilot program 
that requires school administrative units with schools that serve students in any of grades 6 
to 12 to make available menstrual products to students at no cost and provides one-time 
funding to reimburse school administrative units for 90% of the cost. The amendment also 
provides for reimbursement to school administrative units that install coinless dispensers 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
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SENATE AMENDMENT" A "to H.P. 222, L.D. 348 {::>-73V 
of menstrual products in school bathrooms until the funding appropriated for this purpose 
has been exhausted. The amendment also requires the Department of Education to submit 
a report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over 
education matters by January 15, 2026. 
SPONSORED BY: __ t_½i~• fl-o~~-·/4u 
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(Senator ROTUNDO, M.) 
COUNTY: Androscoggin 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
SENA TE AMENDMENT 
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Approved: 05/07 /24 feae 
LD348 
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An Act to Make Menstrual Products Available in Certain Schools 
Fiscal Note for Senate Amendment ')q" to Original Bill{5-7:32() 
Sponsor: Sen. Rotundo of Androscoggin 
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Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Net ~:0st (Savings) 
Genenll Fund· 
Appropriations/ Allocations 
General Fund 
State M~ndates 
RE{qu_ired Activity 
-~. 
. 
Fiscal Note 
State Mandate - Funded 
FY 2023-24 
FY 2024-25 
($564,059) 
$27,001 
($564,059) 
$27,001 
:Requires all schools that serve studel).ts in grades 6 to 12 to make menstrual products 
~v~ita_ble to students at no cost during the 2024-2025 school year. • 
Projections 
FY 2025-26 
($272,999) 
($272,999) 
Projections 
FY 2026-27 
($272,999) 
($272,S 
Unit Affected 
Local Cost 
School 
303332 = 100% 
The:~equired.local activities in this bill may represent a state mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine. Ir°the bill 
does require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures 
frcim local revenue, the state mandate provisions of the Constitution of Maine require either: (1) General Fund 
appropriations be provided to fund at least 90% of any additional necessitated local costs of the mandate; or (2) a 
Mandate Preamble be added to the bill and two-thirds of the members of each House vote to exempt the mandate from 
the funding requirement. If the bill does represent a state mandate and neither one of these actions occurs, the local 
units of government will not be required to implement the mandated activities. 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
This amendment strikes the ongoing requirement in the bill that school administrative units (SAUs) that serve students 
in grades 6 to 12 must make menstrual products available to students at no cost in all school bathrooms and instead 
establishes a one-year pilot program that requires all schools that serve students in these same grades make menstrual 
products available at no cost for the 2024-2025 school year only. The one-time General Fund appropriation of 
$291,060 in fiscal year 2023-24 for the cost of purchasing and installing coinless dispensers in bathrooms and the 
ongoing General Fund appropriations of $272,999 per year beginning in fiscal year 2023-24 for the cost of menstru. 
products are eliminated. 
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As amended, this bill includes one-time General Fund appropriations totaling $300,000 in fiscal year 2024-25 for the 
cost of the pilot program. Of this amount. $272,999 is appropriated for 90% of the cost of providing the menstrual 
products and $27,001 is appropriated to reimburse schools that choose to install a dispenser of menstrual product in 
school bathrooms. Reimbursement to SA Us for the cost to install a dispenser of menstrual products is limited to funds 
appropriated for this purpose. 
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