House File 2292 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE 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 6052HH 82
  4 ak/nh/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 91.5, Code 2007, 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, in close proximity to the work area
  1 27 other than a toilet stall, 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, for the employee to express breast milk or
  2  9 breast=feed in privacy.
  2 10    For the purposes of this bill, an employer is defined as a
  2 11 person who employs one or more employees.
  2 12 LSB 6052HH 82
  2 13 ak/nh/14