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Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2011

Introduced: August 1, 2011 Introduced by: Merkley, Jeff Democratic · Oregon See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Aug 1, 2011
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2011 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include lactation (i.e., breastfeeding or the expressing of milk from the breast) as protected conduct under such Act (specifically, an amendment to such Act commonly known as the Pregnancy Discrimination Act).

Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to extend the requirement that certain employers provide reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child to bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity employees or outside salesmen who are exempt from federal labor laws that limit the number of hours in a workweek.

What's happening now August 1, 2011

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 2758 Identical bill Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2011
 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Independent 1
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Blumenthal, Richard
Connecticut · Sep 10, 2012
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Sanders, Bernard
Vermont · Sep 6, 2011
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1463: Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2011. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-1463/
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