Bill Text: VA HB947 | 2014 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: School board policy, local; designated breastfeeding area for employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-12 - Left in Education [HB947 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2014-HB947-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 947 Offered January 8, 2014 Prefiled January 8, 2014 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-79.5, relating to local school board policy; designated breastfeeding area for employees. ---------- Patron-- O'Quinn ---------- Committee Referral Pending ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-79.5 as follows:

§22.1-79.5. Policy regarding a designated breastfeeding area for employees.

Each local school board shall adopt a policy to set aside, in each school in the school division, space that is shielded from the public view to be designated as a breastfeeding area in which any mother who is employed by the local school board may breastfeed her child until the child reaches the age of one.