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2014 SESSION

14101650D
HOUSE BILL NO. 720
House Amendments in [ ] -- February 5, 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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Patron Prior to Engrossment--Delegate McClellan
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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 [ 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.