Bill Text: TX HB541 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the right to express breast milk.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB541 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB541-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 541

AN ACT
relating to the right to express breast milk.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 165.002, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 165.002. RIGHT TO BREAST-FEED OR EXPRESS BREAST MILK.
A mother is entitled to breast-feed her baby or express breast milk
in any location in which the mother's presence [mother] is
otherwise authorized [to be].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 541 was passed by the House on April
12, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 1, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 541 was passed by the Senate on May
21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor