Fair Access for Moms Act

Bill: 114-hr-2836
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2015-06-18
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor standards

Women's employment

Women's health

Worker safety and health
Latest action: action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-06-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Fair Access for Moms Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to revise maximum hours requirements to subject employers with less than 15 employees (currently, less than 50) to the requirement that they provide a reasonable break time and place for their employees to express breast milk for a nursing child at the work place. (Effectively expands the number of employers subject to the requirement.)</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2836 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 18, 2015 Ms. Meng (for herself, Mr. Conyers , Ms. McCollum , Mr. McGovern , Ms. Frankel of Florida , Mr. Swalwell of California , Ms. Lee , Ms. Roybal-Allard , Mr. O’Rourke , Mr. Crowley , Mr. Cartwright , Mrs. Napolitano , Ms. Norton , Ms. Kuster , Mr. Hastings , Mrs. Kirkpatrick , Ms. Clark of Massachusetts , and Mrs. Torres ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to expand the number of employers required to provide a reasonable time and place for employees to express milk at the workplace.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fair Access for Moms Act . 2. Employers required to provide reasonable time and place for expressing milk Section 7(r)(3) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ( 29 U.S.C. 207(r)(3) ) is amended by striking 50 and inserting 15 .