House File 10HOUSE FILE BY ABDUL=SAMAD Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to employees who are breast=feeding. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 1184HH 83 4 ak/nh/14 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 91.5, Code 2009, is amended to read as 1 2 follows: 1 3 91.5 OTHER DUTIES == JURISDICTION IN GENERAL. 1 4 The commissioner shall have jurisdiction and it shall be 1 5 the commissioner's duty to supervise the enforcement of: 1 6 1. All laws relating to safety appliances and inspection 1 7 thereof and health conditions in manufacturing and mercantile 1 8 establishments, workshops, machine shops, other industrial 1 9 concerns within the commissioner's jurisdiction and sanitation 1 10 and shelter for railway employees. 1 11 2. All laws of the state relating to child labor. 1 12 3. All laws relating to employment agencies. 1 13 4. All laws relating to issues of breast=feeding in the 1 14 workplace. 1 15 4.5. Such other provisions of law as are now or shall 1 16 hereafter be within the commissioner's jurisdiction. 1 17 Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. 91F.1 BREAST=FEEDING AT WORK. 1 18 1. An employer shall provide reasonable unpaid break time 1 19 each day to an employee who needs to express breast milk or 1 20 breast=feed a child. The break time shall, if possible, run 1 21 concurrently with any break time already provided to the 1 22 employee. An employer is not required to provide break time 1 23 under this section if to do so would unduly disrupt the 1 24 operations of the employer. 1 25 2. The employer shall make reasonable efforts to provide a 1 26 room or other location, other than a toilet stall, in close 1 27 proximity to the work area where the employee can express the 1 28 breast milk or breast=feed in privacy. 1 29 3. For the purposes of this section, "employer" means a 1 30 person who employs one or more employees. 1 31 EXPLANATION 1 32 This bill places the enforcement of laws concerning nursing 1 33 mothers in the workplace under the auspices of the labor 1 34 commissioner. 1 35 The bill requires that an employer provide reasonable daily 2 1 unpaid break time to an employee who needs to express breast 2 2 milk or breast=feed a child. The break shall be the same 2 3 break if one is already given to the employee. An employer is 2 4 not required to provide a break if doing so would unduly 2 5 disrupt the employer's work operations. 2 6 The bill also requires that the employer make reasonable 2 7 efforts to provide a room or other location, other than a 2 8 toilet stall, in close proximity to the work area for the 2 9 employee to express breast milk or breast=feed in privacy. 2 10 For the purposes of the bill, an employer is defined as a 2 11 person who employs one or more employees. 2 12 LSB 1184HH 83 2 13 ak/nh/14