- 82nd Session (2023)
Senate Joint Resolution No. 5–Senators Scheible, Seevers Gansert,
Krasner, Spearman, Buck; Cannizzaro, Daly, Donate,
Dondero Loop, Flores, Goicoechea, Hammond, Hansen, D.
Harris, Lange, Neal, Nguyen, Ohrenschall, Pazina, Stone
and Titus
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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION—Urging Congress to expand the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Special
Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and
Children to cover the purchase of menstrual products.
RESOLVED BY THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF
NEVADA, JOINTLY, That the members of the 82nd Session of the
Nevada Legislature hereby urge Congress to expand the eligible
uses of benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for
Women, Infants and Children to include the purchase of menstrual
products to improve the access of persons with low incomes to such
necessary products; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Secretary of the Senate prepare and
transmit a copy of this resolution to the Vice President of the United
States as the presiding officer of the Senate, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives and each member of the Nevada
Congressional Delegation; and be it further
RESOLVED, That this resolution becomes effective upon
passage.
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