Supporting Working Moms Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-934
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2013-05-13
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor standards

Women's employment

Women's health

Worker safety and health
Latest action: action_date: 2013-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-05-13
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Supporting Working Moms Act of 2013 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to extend the requirement that certain employers provide reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child to bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity employees or outside salesmen who are exempt from federal labor laws that limit the number of hours in a workweek. </p>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 934 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 13, 2013 Mr. Merkley (for himself, Mr. Harkin , and Ms. Warren ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 regarding reasonable break time for nursing mothers.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Supporting Working Moms Act of 2013 . 2. Reasonable break time for nursing mothers Section 13(a) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ( 29 U.S.C. 213(a) ) is amended by striking sections 6 (except section 6(d) in the case of paragraph (1) of this subsection) and 7 and inserting sections 6 and 7 (except sections 6(d) and 7(r) in the case of paragraph (1) of this subsection) .