Bills › 88th General Assembly
Relating to employment policies regarding expression of breast milk
Topics:Jobs & workers
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 31, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 4, 2019
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill requires an employer to provide reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for the employee’s child. The bill requires an employer to provide a clean and sanitary private room, other than a toilet facility, which may be locked by an employee while in use and includes access to an electrical outlet for an employee to express breast milk. The bill provides that an employer shall not pay wages to an employee that are less than the rate paid to other employees because the employee expresses, or asks the employer about the ability to express, breast milk at work.
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The bill also prohibits an employer from disciplining, up to and including termination, or retaliating against an employee whose work product or work volume decreases because the employee uses or asks the employer about the ability to use break time to express breast milk.
House subcommittee
Named January 22, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.
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