Breast Feeding Legislation

 

Illinois Legislation

 

1. Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act
1. Break time for nursing mothers
1. An employer shall provide reasonable unpaid break time each day to an employee who needs to express breast milk for her infant child.  The break time must, if possible run concurrently with any break time already provided to the employee.  An employer is not required to provide break time under this Section if to do so would unduly disrupt the employers operations.
2. An employer shall make reasonable efforts to provide a room or other location, in close proximity to the work area, other than a toilet stall, where an employee described in Section 10 can express her milk in privacy.

 

2. Two breastfeeding bills were submitted in Illinois in the year 2001.
1. Grants a credit against the tax imposed by the Illinois Income Tax Act in the amount of expenditures required for providing an on-site lactation room on the premises of the tax payer's workplace; relates to the requirements of the lactation rooms.

 

 

Missouri Legislation

 

3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a mother may, with as much discretion as possible, breast-feed her child in any public or private location where the mother is otherwise authorized to be.

 

 

 

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