republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-232.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Menstrual supplies; school boards shall make available in each school building.	Menstrual supplies; availability; public elementary, middle, and high schools. Requires each school board to make tampons or pads available, at all times and at no cost to students, (i) in such accessible locations as it deems appropriate in each elementary school in the local school division and (ii) in the bathrooms of each middle school and high school in the local school division. This bill is identical to HB 405.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 232	Virginia SB 232 (2020)	bill		enacted	Jennifer B. Boysko	6	43	9	2020-01-02	2020-04-06	openstates	ocd-bill/2108eeaf-cf18-4c3f-8179-7205a7a5dfaa	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB232	860b309d31ff0e35059b6384e391fffcf7e1fb07bfc168f6e9823534c04514aa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 232 (2020) — Menstrual supplies; school boards shall make available in each school building.

Menstrual supplies; availability; public elementary, middle, and high schools. Requires each school board to make tampons or pads available, at all times and at no cost to students, (i) in such accessible locations as it deems appropriate in each elementary school in the local school division and (ii) in the bathrooms of each middle school and high school in the local school division. This bill is identical to HB 405.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB232ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate as amended SB232E (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB232) (committee substitute) — source
5. Impact statement from DPB (SB232H1) (committee substitute) — source
6. SB232S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education with substitute (14-Y 8-N) — 14–8 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (54-Y 44-N) — 53–44 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Agree To (59-Y 35-N) — 58–35 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N) — 0–40 (fail) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jennifer B. Boysko — primary (person)
• Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2020-01-02 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102670D introduction
• 2020-01-02 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-09 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2020-01-10 Impact statement from DPB (SB232)
• 2020-01-16 Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-20 Reading of amendments waived
• 2020-01-20 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2020-01-20 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB232E
• 2020-01-20 Printed as engrossed 20102670D-E
• 2020-01-21 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-12 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-12 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-12 Impact statement from DPB (SB232E)
• 2020-02-17 Reported from Education with substitute (14-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-17 Committee substitute printed 20108276D-H1 substitution
• 2020-02-19 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB232H1)
• 2020-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-20 Committee substitute agreed to 20108276D-H1
• 2020-02-20 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB232H1
• 2020-02-20 Passed House with substitute (54-Y 44-N) passage
• 2020-02-20 VOTE: Passage (54-Y 44-N)
• 2020-02-24 House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N)
• 2020-02-25 House insisted on substitute
• 2020-02-25 House requested conference committee
• 2020-02-27 Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-27 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2020-02-28 Conferees appointed by House
• 2020-03-03 Amended by conference committee
• 2020-03-03 Conference substitute printed 20109505D-S1
• 2020-03-04 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-04 Conference report agreed to by House (59-Y 35-N)
• 2020-03-04 VOTE: Agree To (59-Y 35-N)
• 2020-03-07 Enrolled
• 2020-03-07 Signed by President
• 2020-03-08 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-09 Impact statement from DPB (SB232ER)
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
• 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 676 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2108eeaf-cf18-4c3f-8179-7205a7a5dfaa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).