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Coalition presses for statewide menstrual product access and ingredient disclosure
Summary
Advocates, municipal officials and vendors urged the Joint Committee on Public Health to advance bills that would require free menstrual products in schools, shelters and correctional facilities and require ingredient disclosure on menstrual product packaging.
A broad coalition of advocates, local officials and vendors urged the Joint Committee on Public Health to advance legislation that would (1) require free access to menstrual products in public schools, homeless shelters and correctional facilities and (2) require ingredient disclosure on menstrual product packaging.
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