§ 89A.002.Liability from Donation of Feminine Hygiene Product

The donor protection, and it names the parties it is aimed at.

A person, including a manufacturer or distributor, is not subject to civil or criminal liability arising from the nature, age, packaging, or condition of a feminine hygiene product that the person donates in good faith to a nonprofit organization for distribution to individuals in need, provided the product meets the applicable requirements.

Naming manufacturers and distributors is deliberate. The donations this chapter contemplates are corporate — surplus inventory, discontinued lines, products with damaged outer packaging or approaching a date code.

Those are exactly the goods a manufacturer would otherwise destroy, and exactly the goods a distribution charity wants.

The four characteristics — nature, age, packaging, or condition — match the medical device chapter, and they identify what is wrong with donated stock: it is old, the box is crushed, or it has been stored imperfectly.

"Civil or criminal liability" covers both, as in the food donor chapter. Distributing products that fail some labelling or handling requirement can carry regulatory consequences as well as tort exposure, and the protection reaches both.

The chapter was enacted as part of a broader legislative response to period poverty, alongside measures exempting these products from sales tax.