BILL · 1997–98 SESSION
SB 5885: Breast-feeding
Requiring employers to allow mothers to breast-feed.
Summary
- The Legislature finds that infant breast-feeding is a basic act of nurture to be encouraged for health and family value reasons and recognizes that workplace policies protecting the right to breast-feed furthers these goals. A woman is authorized to breast-feed her infant child at the workplace in any public or private location where she is permitted to be. "Infant child" means a child under two years of age.
From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5885), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedFeb 18, 1997
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Adam Kline (D-37)
- Introduced
- February 18, 1997 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 12, 1998
- Companion bill
- HB 1194
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Adam Kline (D-37)
7 co-sponsors (6 Democrats, 1 Republican)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
The Legislature's online data doesn't include step-by-step history for sessions before 2001. Its final status is shown above, and the official bill page may have more.
SB 5885 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 5885 (2025–26) Housing dev./religious orgs.
- SB 5885 (2023–24) Certificates of annexation
- SB 5885 (2021–22) Marine shoreline habitat
- SB 5885 (2019–20) Child trafficking/hearsay
- SB 5885 (2017–18) Revenue T.O.
- SB 5885 (2015–16) W & E st. hospital employees
- SB 5885 (2013–14) Instruction/Spanish, Chinese
- SB 5885 (2011–12) State government T.O.