Bill Text: TX HB541 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to the right to express breast milk.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB541 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB541-Enrolled.html
 
 
  H.B. No. 541
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the right to express breast milk.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 165.002, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 165.002.  RIGHT TO BREAST-FEED OR EXPRESS BREAST MILK.
  A mother is entitled to breast-feed her baby or express breast milk
  in any location in which the mother's presence [mother] is
  otherwise authorized [to be].
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 541 was passed by the House on April
  12, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 142, Nays 1, 2 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 541 was passed by the Senate on May
  21, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor       
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