Congress removes legal barriers to donating menstrual products to nonprofits
H.R. 6212 — Good Samaritan Menstrual Products Act · Filed by Grace Meng (D-NY) · 30 cosponsors · Introduced Nov 20, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill shields manufacturers, distributors, and nonprofits from lawsuits when they donate menstrual products to charities for distribution to people in need, as long as the products are in apparently usable condition and the donation is made in good faith. The protection does not apply if someone acts with gross negligence or intentional misconduct that causes injury or death.
Why we flagged it
The bill's operative mechanism is a liability shield designed to increase donation of menstrual products to nonprofits serving low-income individuals. It is a targeted public-health access measure, not a broad deregulation or industry carve-out.
What the text implies
- Manufacturers may donate surplus or near-expiration inventory without legal exposure, potentially reducing waste while increasing supply to nonprofits.
- The 'apparently usable' standard ties liability protection to compliance with existing federal, state, and local quality/labeling standards—a narrow gate that preserves consumer safety.
- Nonprofits gain legal certainty to accept and distribute donated products, reducing administrative friction and enabling smaller organizations to participate.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Low-income individuals gain access to free menstrual products that would otherwise be discarded or unavailable. The liability shield is narrowly tailored—it does not protect against gross negligence or intentional harm—and removes a barrier that currently discourages donation of usable surplus inventory.
Who stands to gain
- menstrual product manufacturers (reduced liability and disposal costs for surplus inventory)
- nonprofit organizations (reduced legal risk and administrative burden)
Named in the bill
nonprofit organizations, menstrual product manufacturers, distributors, individuals in need
Where it stands
30 cosponsors: 25 Democrats, 5 Republicans.
- Nov 20, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Nov 20, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $1,840,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 136 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Grace Meng, the sponsor, reported $613,550 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- American Association for Justice — $1,840,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,658 characters) on Sep 27, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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