<tr><td class="xsl" colspan="3"><p> </p> </td></tr></td></tr><tr><td class="xsl" colspan="3"><table class="xsl" width="100%"><colgroup width="5%"></colgroup><colgroup width="5%"></colgroup><colgroup width="30%"></colgroup><colgroup width="20%"></colgroup><colgroup width="40%"></colgroup><tr><td class="number"></td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" align="left">SB0212 Engrossed</td><td class="xsl" align="center"></td><td class="xsl" align="right">LRB104 02945 SPS 12961 b</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td class="xsl"> </td></tr><tr><td class="number">1</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code> </code><code>AN ACT concerning employment.</code> </td></tr><tr><td class="number">2</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code> </code><b><code>Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, </code></b></td></tr><tr><td class="number">3</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><b><code>represented in the General Assembly:</code></b> </td></tr><tr><td class="number">4</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code> </code><code>Section 5. </code><code>The Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act is </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">5</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>amended by changing Section 10 as follows:</code> </td></tr><tr><td class="number">6</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code> </code><code>(820 ILCS 260/10)</code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">7</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code> </code><code>Sec. 10. </code><code>Break time for nursing mothers. </code><code>An employer shall </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">8</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>provide reasonable break time to an employee who needs to </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">9</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>express breast milk for her nursing infant child each time the </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">10</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>employee has the need to express milk for one year after the </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">11</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>child's birth. The break time may run concurrently with any </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">12</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>break time already provided to the employee. </code><u><code>An employer shall </code></u></td></tr><tr><td class="number">13</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><u><code>compensate the employee during the break time at the </code></u></td></tr><tr><td class="number">14</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><u><code>employee's regular rate of compensation. An employer shall not </code></u></td></tr><tr><td class="number">15</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><u><code>require the employee to use paid leave during the break time or </code></u></td></tr><tr><td class="number">16</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><u><code>reduce the employee's compensation during the break time in </code></u></td></tr><tr><td class="number">17</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><u><code>any other manner.</code></u><code> </code><strike><code>An employer may not reduce an employee's </code></strike></td></tr><tr><td class="number">18</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><strike><code>compensation for time used for the purpose of expressing milk </code></strike></td></tr><tr><td class="number">19</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><strike><code>or nursing a baby.</code></strike><code> An employer shall provide </code><u><code>paid</code></u><code> reasonable </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">20</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>break time as needed by the employee unless to do so would </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">21</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>create an undue hardship as defined by item (J) of Section </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">22</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>2-102 of the Illinois Human Rights Act.</code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">23</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>(Source: P.A. 100-1003, eff. 8-21-18.)</code>