Bill Text: VA HB1884 | 2019 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: State correctional facilities; visitors wearing tampons or menstrual cups.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-03-08 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) [HB1884 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2019-HB1884-Enrolled.html

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VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER An Act to require the Director of the Department of Corrections to review and revise the Department's visitation policies concerning visitors at state correctional facilities; wearing of tampons or menstrual cups. [H 1884] Approved

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. The Director of the Department of Corrections shall review the Department's visitation policies concerning visitors' wearing of tampons or menstrual cups at state correctional facilities and shall revise such policies as necessary to permit such visitors to wear tampons or menstrual cups. The Department shall make the policy available to the public as soon as practicable and shall provide a copy to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety and the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services by November 1, 2019.