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2014 SESSION

14100747D
HOUSE BILL NO. 947
Offered January 8, 2014
Prefiled January 8, 2014
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-79.5, relating to local school board policy; designated breastfeeding area for employees.
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Patrons-- O'Quinn and Minchew
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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. Policy regarding a designated breastfeeding area for employees.

Each local school board shall adopt a policy to set aside, in each school in the school division, space that is shielded from the public view to be designated as a breastfeeding area in which any mother who is employed by the local school board may breastfeed her child until the child reaches the age of one.