Recognizing the impact the stigmatization of menstruation has on the lives of women, girls, and people who menstruate, and expressing support for the designation of the month of May as "National Menstrual Health Awareness Month".
HRES 351 is a symbolic resolution designating May as "National Menstrual Health Awareness Month" to address stigma around menstruation. It recognizes that stigma and lack of access to products/facilities impact women, girls, and people who menstruate in education, work, and health. The resolution supports normalizing menstruation, improving menstrual health education, and promoting access to products and private sanitation facilities. As a non-binding resolution, it does not create new laws but aims to raise awareness and advance gender equity through public acknowledgment.
Bill status
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1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced May 2, 2023
Last action May 5, 2023
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May 5, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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May 2, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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May 2, 2023
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Introduced in House
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1 primary · 19 co-sponsors
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State
District
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Grace Meng
DDemocratic
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Barbara Lee
DDemocratic
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Danny K. Davis
DDemocratic
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David J. Trone
DDemocratic
Co
Donald M. Payne, Jr.
DDemocratic
Co
Dwight Evans
DDemocratic
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
DDemocratic
Co
Gwen Moore
DDemocratic
Co
Joyce Beatty
DDemocratic
Co
Judy Chu
DDemocratic
Co
Julia Brownley
DDemocratic
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