Bill 30 explained in plain English
Menstrual Health Day Act, 2022
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 43rd Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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Bill 30, the Menstrual Health Day Act, 2022, proclaims May 28th as Menstrual Health Day in Ontario each year to raise awareness about menstrual health challenges and stigma.
This bill, called the Menstrual Health Day Act, 2022, proclaims May 28th of each year as Menstrual Health Day in Ontario. The preamble to the bill states that many people in Ontario, particularly in Northern and Indigenous communities, struggle to afford menstrual products. It notes that this can lead to unsafe practices for managing menstruation, impacting health and social equity. Proclaiming this day aims to raise awareness of these challenges and to help fight menstrual health inequity and stigma, normalizing menstruation as a natural bodily function.
- It proclaims May 28 in each year as Menstrual Health Day.
- It requires the province to recognize May 28 annually as Menstrual Health Day.
- It aims to raise awareness of the challenges people who menstruate face in affording menstrual products.
- It seeks to promote the normalization of menstruation and combat menstrual health inequity and stigma.
- People who menstruate in Ontario
- Low income individuals who menstruate
- Homeless individuals who menstruate
- Indigenous individuals who menstruate
- Young people who menstruate
- Northern communities
- Indigenous communities
- The bill establishes May 28 as Menstrual Health Day, implying a recognition and awareness-raising purpose.
- May 28 (to be recognized annually as Menstrual Health Day)
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The bill does not specify any programs, funding, or actions the government must take beyond proclaiming the day.
- The bill does not define 'Menstrual Health Day' beyond the proclamation itself.
Establishes May 28 as Menstrual Health Day in Ontario each year.
Source: Section 1
Specifies that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
Source: Section 2
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