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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
ENGROSSED SENATE
BILL NO. 121 By: Hicks, Garvin, Stanley,
David, Dossett (J.A.), Kirt
and Floyd of the Senate
and
Hasenbeck, Bush, Ranson and
Waldron of the House
An Act relating to school employees; directing each
school district board of education to adopt certain
policy for school district employees who are
lactating; requiring each school district to make a
reasonable effort to provide ce rtain room or other
location for an employee to express milk or
breastfeed a child; providing for codification;
providing an effective date; and declaring an
emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 5 -149.3 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Each school district board of education in this state shall
adopt a policy allowing a school district employee who is lactating
reasonable paid break time each day to use a designated lactation
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room for the purpose of maintaining milk supply and comfort. The
break time may run concurrently with any break time, paid or unpaid,
already provided to the employee.
B. Each school district board of education shall make a
reasonable effort to provide a private, secure and sanitary room or
other location, other than a toilet stall, where an employee can
express her milk or breastfeed he r child.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2021.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason wh ereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON COMMON EDUCATION, dated 04/06/2021
- DO PASS, As Coauthored.