It's part of life, but it can be an embarrassing topic for many menstruation.

Some state lawmakers hope stocking schools with period products will eliminate some of that shame.

Kentucky Edition's June Lefler tells us more.

State Representative Lisa Wilner says she worked with the high school freshmen on her latest piece of legislation last year.

As a middle schooler at Tates Creek Middle School, Rosie decided she wanted to tackle the problem of period poverty head on.

Rosie can't started a Go Fund Me page so she could buy tampons and pads to give away for free at school.

She sent me a statement that I'm going to read on her behalf.

So this is from Rosie.

My name is Rosie Katz.

I'm 14 years old and a freshman in high school.

High school girls have a lot going on, trying to find hygiene products shouldn't be another issue we have to deal with.

Most girls feel stressed and embarrassed at school because they don't have access to hygiene products.

I've experienced this firsthand, said Rosie, and have seen my friends and classmates dealing with this.

The majority of students at my school are considered economically disadvantaged and period products are expensive.

Someone can easily go through 20 pads or tampons in a single cycle, according to Harvard Health.

That's a whole box or package.

We all nurses.

The state of Kentucky should be more like cats.

We'll never introduced a bill today to stock free period products in every public school in Kentucky that teaches sixth grade girls to high school seniors will nurse calling for the state to dole out $2 million a year to make these products available.

I do know that some schools that have frisks the Friskies, the Family Resource and Youth Services Centers, some of them will budget it and include it.

But not every school has a frisk, and not every frisk spends their money this way.

So this would make it uniform in every school across the Commonwealth.

Advocates ask why these products aren't just like anything else you'd find in a public restroom.

Soap and toilet paper are already expected.

It's time for students who menstruate to have the same access to these basic and necessary supplies.

Providing menstrual products in all schools as common sense.

Advocates also say having period products around can keep students in class and focused.

According to the Alliance for period Supplies.

Without period products, these students are more likely to miss school.

Before the pandemic, four in five teens reported that they have either missed class time or knew a classmate who missed class because they did not have access to period products.

Several states have adopted similar legislation.

Every state outside the Gray has made some effort.

Wellness Bill also calls for eliminating the state's 6% sales tax on period products like exemptions for other necessities like food and certain medications and contraceptives.

25 states and the District of Columbia have already done so.

A fundamental injustice, right?

I mean, this is a tax that affects roughly half, slightly over half of the population and doesn't affect the other half.

Other state lawmakers are pushing for similar measures.

And Louisville Democratic Representative Beverly Chester Burton's bill would stock homeless shelters with more period products.

But these kinds of bills haven't had much luck in the state house.

The question that I always get is you're a Democrat, you're in the minority and a very large super majority.

Is this bill going to pass?

I don't know the answer to that.

I will say that I've had very productive conversations with colleagues across the aisle.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm June Leffler.

Thank you.

June Wilner and her fellow Louisville Democrat State Senator Denise Harper.

Angel filed period equity bills last year.

Neither made it out of committee.