2011 Senate Bill 554

Include breastfeeding woman as civil rights protected class

Introduced in the Senate

June 30, 2011

Introduced by Sen. Rebekah Warren (D-18)

To include a woman who is breastfeeding in the protected classes in the state civil rights law. The bill would prohibit denying a breastfeeding woman “the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of a place of public accommodation,” and these places from having or posting a policy that a breastfeeding woman's patronage or presence is “objectionable, unwelcome, unacceptable, or undesirable”..

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary