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The legislature finds that breast-feeding a baby is an important and basic act of nurture that must be encouraged in the interests of maternal and child health and family values. Added by Acts 1995, 74th leg., ch.600, SS1, eff. A mother is entitled to breast-feed her baby in any location in which the mother is authorized to be. The business shall submit its breast-feeding policy to the department. Any state agency that administers a program providing maternal or child health services shall provide information that encourages breast-feeding to program participants who are pregnant women or mothers with infants.