Supporting Working Moms Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2122
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2017-11-14
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor standards

Wages and earnings

Women's employment

Women's health

Worker safety and health
Latest action: action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-11-14
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Supporting Working Moms Act of 2017</b></p> <p>This bill 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 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2122 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 14, 2017 Mr. Merkley (for himself, Ms. Murkowski , Mr. Markey , Mr. Blumenthal , Ms. Warren , Mrs. Gillibrand , Ms. Hassan , Mr. Casey , Mr. Wyden , and Mr. Franken ) 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 2017 . 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) .