BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 443 By: Walle Business & Industry Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties are concerned that public employees are not guaranteed a sanitary place in which to express breast milk. H.B. 443 seeks to provide a place other than a bathroom where a public employee may express breast milk. CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS H.B. 443 amends the Government Code to expand from a multiple user bathroom to any bathroom the types of bathrooms explicitly disqualified as a place a public employer may provide for an employee to express breast milk in satisfaction of the applicable requirement. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2017.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 443
By: Walle
Business & Industry
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 443
By: Walle
Business & Industry
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties are concerned that public employees are not guaranteed a sanitary place in which to express breast milk. H.B. 443 seeks to provide a place other than a bathroom where a public employee may express breast milk.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS H.B. 443 amends the Government Code to expand from a multiple user bathroom to any bathroom the types of bathrooms explicitly disqualified as a place a public employer may provide for an employee to express breast milk in satisfaction of the applicable requirement.
EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2017.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties are concerned that public employees are not guaranteed a sanitary place in which to express breast milk. H.B. 443 seeks to provide a place other than a bathroom where a public employee may express breast milk.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
H.B. 443 amends the Government Code to expand from a multiple user bathroom to any bathroom the types of bathrooms explicitly disqualified as a place a public employer may provide for an employee to express breast milk in satisfaction of the applicable requirement.
EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2017.