Bill Text: TX SB284 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 284 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the requirement that a public employer provide a place for employees to express breast milk.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-15 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB284 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB284-Introduced.html

	88R4774 LRM-D

	By: Eckhardt	S.B. No. 284



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the requirement that a public employer provide a place
	for employees to express breast milk.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 619.004, Government Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 619.004. PUBLIC EMPLOYER RESPONSIBILITIES. A public
	employer shall:
	(1) provide a reasonable amount of break time for an
	employee to express breast milk each time the employee has need to
	express the milk; and
	(2) provide a place, other than a [~~multiple user~~]
	bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from
	other employees and the public where the employee can express
	breast milk.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.