Researcher: LRH Page 1 3/27/25
OLR Bill Analysis
SB 1030
AN ACT CONCERNING BREASTFEEDING IN THE WORKPLACE.
SUMMARY
This bill requires employers to provide a reasonable break time for
an employee to express breastmilk for the employee’s nursing child or
to breastfeed at the workplace each time the employee needs to do so.
This generally aligns Connecticut’s breastfeeding in the workplace law
with federal law (the Pump for Nursing Mothers Act included in the
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023). Current state law allows an
employee, at her discretion, to express breastmilk or breastfeed during
her meal or break period.
Existing state law, unchanged by the bill, also requires an employer
to make reasonable efforts to provide a room or other location near the
work area, except a toilet stall, that (1) is private, (2) has or is near a
refrigerator or other employee-provided portable cold storage device,
and (3) has access to an electrical outlet.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2025
COMMITTEE ACTION
Labor and Public Employees Committee
Joint Favorable
Yea 13 Nay 0 (03/13/2025)