Title: Friendly Airports for Mothers Improvement Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Friendly Airports for Mothers Improvement Act
This bill requires small hub airports to maintain a lactation area for nursing mothers and a baby changing table in at least one men's and one women's restroom in each passenger terminal building of the airport.
Currently, medium and large hub airports must comply with this requirement by FY2021. The bill requires small hub airports to be in compliance by FY2023.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2638 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2638

To amend title 49, United State Code, to require small hub airports to 
      construct areas for nursing mothers, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 17, 2019

 Ms. Duckworth (for herself and Mrs. Fischer) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 49, United State Code, to require small hub airports to 
      construct areas for nursing mothers, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Friendly Airports for Mothers 
Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. MOTHERS' ROOMS.

    Section 47107(w) of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1) by striking ``In fiscal year 2021'' 
        and all that follows through ``the Secretary of 
        Transportation'' and inserting ``The Secretary of 
        Transportation'';
            (2) in paragraph (1)(B) by striking ``one men's and one 
        women's'' and inserting ``at least one men's and at least one 
        women's'';
            (3) by striking paragraph (2)(A) and inserting the 
        following:
                    ``(A) Airport size.--
                            ``(i) In general.--The requirements in 
                        paragraph (1) shall only apply to applications 
                        submitted by the airport sponsor of--
                                    ``(I) a medium or large hub airport 
                                in fiscal year 2021 and each fiscal 
                                year thereafter; and
                                    ``(II) an applicable small hub 
                                airport in fiscal year 2023 and each 
                                fiscal year thereafter.
                            ``(ii) Applicable small hub airport 
                        defined.--In clause (i)(II), the term 
                        `applicable small hub airport' means an airport 
                        designated as a small hub airport during--
                                    ``(I) the 3-year period consisting 
                                of 2020, 2021, and 2022; or
                                    ``(II) any consecutive 3-year 
                                period beginning after 2020.'';
            (4) in paragraph (2)(B) by striking ``the date of enactment 
        of this Act complies with the requirement in paragraph (1)'' 
        and inserting ``October 5, 2018, complies with the requirement 
        in paragraph (1)(A)''; and
            (5) in paragraph (2)(C) by striking ``paragraph (1)'' and 
        inserting ``paragraph (1)(A)''.
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