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2014 SESSION

14101650D
HOUSE BILL NO. 720
Offered January 8, 2014
Prefiled January 7, 2014
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-79.5, relating to local school board policy; employee lactation support.
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Patrons-- McClellan, O'Quinn, Carr and Futrell
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Referred to Committee on Education
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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 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.