[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5915 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5915

  To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to require 
   employers to provide menstrual hygiene products for employees in 
                          workplace bathrooms.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2016

   Ms. Meng introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to require 
   employers to provide menstrual hygiene products for employees in 
                          workplace bathrooms.

    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 Products for Employees Act 
of 2016''.

SEC. 2. MENSTRUAL HYGIENE PRODUCTS.

    Section 6 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 
U.S.C. 655) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(h) The Secretary shall by rule promulgate a requirement that 
each employer provide menstrual hygiene products free of charge for 
employees in the bathrooms of the employer.''.
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