Bill Text: TX HB258 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to leave for lactating state employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB258 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB258-Introduced.html

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89R3446 SCF-D
By: González of El Paso H.B. No. 258

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to leave for lactating state employees.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 661, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 661.925 to read as follows:
Sec. 661.925. LEAVE FOR LACTATING STATE EMPLOYEES. (a) A
state agency shall allow each agency employee sufficient time off,
without a deduction in salary or accrued leave, to express breast
milk each time the employee has a reasonable need to express breast
milk.
(b) An agency employee is entitled to the time off provided
by this section until the third anniversary of the date of
childbirth or a reproductive loss.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.