H.R. 1174 · 115th Congress
Fairness For Breastfeeding Mothers Act of 2017
- Stage
- Passed a chamber
- Sponsor
- Eleanor Norton
- Introduced
- 2017-02-16
- Latest action
- 2017-03-08 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Summary
Fairness For Breastfeeding Mothers Act of 2017
(Sec. 2) This bill requires certain public buildings that have a public restroom to provide a lactation room, other than a bathroom, that is available for use by members of the public to express milk. The lactation room must be a hygienic place that is shielded from public view and free from intrusion and must contain a chair, a working surface, and an electrical outlet.
A public building may be excluded from such requirement at the discretion of the official responsible for its operation if:
it does not contain a lactation room for employees and does not have a space that could be repurposed as one or that could be made private by using portable materials, at a reasonable cost; or the cost of new construction required to create a lactation room is not feasible.