Bill Text: IL HB3192 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act. Changes the name of the Act to the Nursing in the Workplace Act. Provides that an employee who has been denied any rights under the Act may bring an action to enjoin future denials of those rights. Provides that, if the employee prevails in that action, the employee shall be awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-18 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB3192 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB3192-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB3192 Introduced , by Rep. Martha Deuter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 260/1
820 ILCS 260/10
820 ILCS 260/15
820 ILCS 260/20 new
Amends the Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act. Changes the name of the Act to the Nursing in the Workplace Act. Provides that an employee who has been denied any rights under the Act may bring an action to enjoin future denials of those rights. Provides that, if the employee prevails in that action, the employee shall be awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning employment.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act is
amended by changing Sections 1, 10, and 15 and by adding
Section 20 as follows:
(820 ILCS 260/1)
Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Nursing
Mothers in the Workplace Act.
(Source: P.A. 92-68, eff. 7-12-01.)
(820 ILCS 260/10)
Sec. 10. Break time for nursing mothers. An employer shall
provide reasonable break time to an employee who needs to
express breast milk for the employee's her nursing infant
child each time the employee has the need to express milk for
one year after the child's birth. The break time may run
concurrently with any break time already provided to the
employee. An employer may not reduce an employee's
compensation for time used for the purpose of expressing milk
or nursing a baby. An employer shall provide reasonable break
time as needed by the employee unless to do so would create an
undue hardship as defined by item (J) of Section 2-102 of the

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Illinois Human Rights Act.
(Source: P.A. 100-1003, eff. 8-21-18.)
(820 ILCS 260/15)
Sec. 15. Private place for nursing mothers. 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 the employee's her milk in privacy.
(Source: P.A. 92-68, eff. 7-12-01.)
(820 ILCS 260/20 new)
Sec. 20. Private right of action. An employee who has been
denied any rights under this Act may bring an action to enjoin
future denials of those rights. If the employee prevails in
that action, the employee shall be awarded reasonable
attorney's fees and costs.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.