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type: "Bill"
title: "Menstrual products: Menstrual Equity for All Act of 2021."
description: "Existing law, the Menstrual Equity for All Act of 2021, requires a public school, as provided, maintaining any combination of classes from grades 6 to 12, inclusive, to stock the school's restrooms with an adequate supply of free menstrual products, as defined, available and accessible, free of cost, in all women's restrooms and all-gender restrooms, and in at least one men's restroom, at all times, and to post a certain notice, on or before the start of the 202223 school year, as prescribed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 230"
citation: "California AB 230 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Menstrual Equity for All Act of 2021", "Menstrual products"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reyes"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/718cefaf-a2a3-4bfa-86ee-0c67c20dd60d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB230"
source_hash: "1d8dc1fe1c7d14d5a86c8a7c400a5498495deb4d7dd95097c8bc15f93671df9c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 230 (20232024) — Menstrual products: Menstrual Equity for All Act of 2021.
Existing law, the Menstrual Equity for All Act of 2021, requires a public school, as provided, maintaining any combination of classes from grades 6 to 12, inclusive, to stock the school's restrooms with an adequate supply of free menstrual products, as defined, available and accessible, free of cost, in all women's restrooms and all-gender restrooms, and in at least one men's restroom, at all times, and to post a certain notice, on or before the start of the 202223 school year, as prescribed.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/11/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB230&version=20230AB23099INT)
2. **03/27/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB230&version=20230AB23098AMD)
3. **09/01/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB230&version=20230AB23097AMD)
4. **10/08/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB230&version=20230AB23095CHP)
5. **AB230** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB230)
6. **09/14/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB230&version=20230AB23096ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **50** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **150** (pass) · lower
- AB 230 Reyes Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **770** (pass) · lower
- AB 230 Reyes Assembly Third Reading — **760** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **50** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB230 Reyes et al. By Skinner — **320** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Reyes — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Durazo — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Menjivar — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
- Smallwood-Cuevas — coauthor (person)
- Wahab — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-01-12** From printer. May be heard in committee February 11.
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 22). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-04-19** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1707.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-31** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-26** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-09-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (September 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2023-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 2557.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2023-09-12** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3228.)
- **2023-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3230.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2023-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 421, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/718cefaf-a2a3-4bfa-86ee-0c67c20dd60d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).