Bill Text: TX SB1479 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to reasonable break times and facilities for school district educators expressing breast milk.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-21 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1479 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1479-Comm_Sub.html
By: Garcia | S.B. No. 1479 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2015; March 19, 2015, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Education; May 5, 2015, | ||
reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 2; | ||
May 5, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to reasonable break times and facilities for school | ||
district educators expressing breast milk. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 21.4051 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 21.4051. TIME AND FACILITIES FOR EXPRESSING BREAST | ||
MILK. A school district must: | ||
(1) provide a reasonable amount of break time at | ||
appropriate intervals to accommodate an educator desiring to | ||
express breast milk for a child of the educator who is under one | ||
year of age; and | ||
(2) provide a room or other location in close | ||
proximity to the educator's work area, other than a toilet stall or | ||
restroom, with an accessible electrical outlet and a locking door | ||
where the educator can express breast milk in private. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
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