Bill Text: VA HB720 | 2014 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: School board policy, local; employee lactation support.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-03-28 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380) [HB720 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2014-HB720-Enrolled.html

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VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-79.5, relating to local school board policy; employee lactation support. [H 720] Approved

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-79.5 as follows:

§22.1-79.5. Employee lactation support policy.

Each local school board shall adopt a policy to set aside, in each school in the school division, a non-restroom location that is shielded from the public view to be designated as an area in which any mother who is employed by the local school board or enrolled as a student may take breaks of reasonable length during the school day to express milk to feed her child until the child reaches the age of one.