Menstrual Equity For All Act of 2025

The Menstrual Equity For All Act of 2025 is a broad, multi-agency effort to improve access to menstrual products across education, criminal justice, social services, healthcare, employment, and federal operations. It creates or expands programs to provide free or affordable menstrual products for students (K-12 and higher education), incarcerated individuals and detainees, homeless populations, and low-income families; it also broadens coverage and protections related to Medicaid, workforce expectations, federal buildings, and tax policy. The bill relies on new funding streams, grant programs, and federal rulemaking to define and implement “menstrual products” (pads, tampons, liners; cups/discs; menstrual underwear) and to promote access, reporting, and evaluation. Its overall aim is to reduce period poverty and its negative impacts on health, education, employment, and social equity. In short, if enacted, the bill would require or fund free menstrual products in schools, colleges, prisons and detention facilities, shelters and homeless services, many federal operations, and some state programs; it would also prohibit sales taxes on menstrual products and provide targeted federal grants and Medicaid coverage to expand access. It would mandate rulemaking and reporting to monitor effectiveness and equity.