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This law was first created in 2020. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 675<\/a> and 676<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":181017,"object_type":"law","relational_id":58212,"identifier":"22.1-6.1","token":"22.1\/1\/22.1-6.1","url":"\/22.1-6.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/22.1-6.1\/","token":"22.1\/1\/22.1-6.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Menstrual supplies; availability; public elementary, middle, and high schools","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 22.1-6.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> As used in this section, “menstrual supplies<\/span>” means tampons or pads for use in connection with the menstrual cycle. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> Each school board<\/span> shall make menstrual supplies<\/span> available, at all times and at no cost to students, in such accessible locations as it deems appropriate in each elementary<\/span> school in the local school division. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> Each school board<\/span> shall make menstrual supplies<\/span> available, at all times and at no cost to students, in the bathrooms of each middle school<\/span> and high school in the local school division. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nMENSTRUAL SUPPLIES; AVAILABILITY; PUBLIC ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE, AND HIGH SCHOOLS\n(\u00a7 22.1-6.1)\n\nA. As used in this section, “menstrual supplies” means tampons or\npads for use in connection with the menstrual cycle.\n\nB. Each school board shall make menstrual supplies available, at all times and\nat no cost to students, in such accessible locations as it deems appropriate in\neach elementary school in the local school division.\n\nC. Each school board shall make menstrual supplies available, at all times and\nat no cost to students, in the bathrooms of each middle school and high school\nin the local school division.\n\nHISTORY: 2020, cc. 675, 676.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}