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

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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-Introduced.html

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86R2967 KKR-D
By: González of El Paso H.B. No. 541

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.