Senate Amendment 5344 PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House File 2531, as amended, passed, and 1 2 reprinted by the House, as follows: 1 3 #1. Page 46, after line 5 by inserting: 1 4 <DIVISION ___ 1 5 WORKPLACE ACCOMODATIONS 1 6 Sec. ___. NEW SECTION. 91F.1 Short title. 1 7 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the 1 8 "Family Friendly Workplace Act". 1 9 Sec. ___. NEW SECTION. 91F.2 Definitions. 1 10 1. "Employer" means a person engaged in a business 1 11 who has one or more employees and also includes the 1 12 state of Iowa, a department or agency thereof, and any 1 13 political subdivision of the state. 1 14 2. "Reasonable efforts" means any effort that would 1 15 not impose an undue hardship on the operation of the 1 16 employer's business. 1 17 3. "Undue hardship" means any action that requires 1 18 significant difficulty, compromises the safety of other 1 19 employees, requires temporary facility closure, or 1 20 results in expenditures exceeding five hundred dollars, 1 21 exclusive of the costs of additional labor or unpaid 1 22 leave costs. 1 23 Sec. ___. NEW SECTION. 91F.3 Right to express 1 24 breast milk in workplace == private location. 1 25 1. An employer shall provide reasonable unpaid 1 26 break time or permit an employee to use paid break 1 27 time, meal time, or both, each day, to allow the 1 28 employee to express breast milk for the employee's 1 29 nursing child for up to two years after the child's 1 30 birth. 1 31 2. The employer shall make reasonable efforts 1 32 to provide a place, other than a toilet stall, which 1 33 is shielded from view and free from intrusion from 1 34 coworkers and the public, that may be used by an 1 35 employee to express breast milk in privacy. 1 36 3. An employer who makes reasonable efforts 1 37 to accommodate an employee who chooses to express 1 38 breast milk in the workplace shall be deemed to be in 1 39 compliance with the requirements of this section. 1 40 4. The department of workforce development shall 1 41 provide on its internet site information and links 1 42 to other internet sites where employers can access 1 43 information regarding methods to accommodate employees 1 44 who express breast milk in the workplace. The 1 45 department shall consult with appropriate organizations 1 46 or associations to determine the appropriate 1 47 information and internet site links so as to provide 1 48 employers with the most accurate and useful information 1 49 available. 1 50 Sec. ___. Section 91.5, Code 2009, is amended to 2 1 read as follows: 2 2 91.5 Other duties == jurisdiction in general. 2 3 The commissioner shall have jurisdiction and it 2 4 shall be the commissioner's duty to supervise the 2 5 enforcement of: 2 6 1. All laws relating to safety appliances 2 7 and inspection thereof and health conditions in 2 8 manufacturing and mercantile establishments, workshops, 2 9 machine shops, other industrial concerns within the 2 10 commissioner's jurisdiction and sanitation and shelter 2 11 for railway employees. 2 12 2. All laws of the state relating to child labor. 2 13 3. All laws relating to employment agencies. 2 14 4. All laws relating to expressing breast milk in 2 15 the workplace. 2 164.5. Such other provisions of law as are now 2 17 or shall hereafter be within the commissioner's 2 18 jurisdiction.> 2 19 #2. By renumbering as necessary. PAM JOCHUM DARYL BEALL HF2531.2867 (4) 83 tm/jp -1-