87R4435 MCF-D
By: Morales Shaw H.B. No. 3004
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to information regarding breast-feeding.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 165, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 165.005 to read as follows:
Sec. 165.005. INFORMATION REGARDING BREAST-FEEDING. (a)
In this section:
(1) "Birthing center" means a facility licensed under
Chapter 244.
(2) "Hospital" means a facility licensed under Chapter
241 or a hospital maintained or operated by this state.
(b) A hospital or birthing center shall provide as
appropriate and at no cost to each mother who gives birth at the
hospital or center information regarding breast-feeding that
includes:
(1) a mother's right to breast-feed as described by
Section 165.002 and as applicable to express breast milk at the
mother's public employer workplace as described by Chapter 619,
Government Code;
(2) the nutritional, medical, and emotional benefits
of breast-feeding for the mother and the child;
(3) common breast-feeding problems and solutions to
those problems; and
(4) preparation of the mother and the child for
breast-feeding.
(c) The commission shall make the information described by
Subsection (b) available on the commission's Internet website in a
format that may be easily printed. The commission may provide the
information described by Subsection (b) in writing to hospitals and
birthing centers if the commission determines that providing
written information is cost-effective.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.