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| 1 | 1 | 89R4372 CMO-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Eckhardt, et al. S.B. No. 349 | |
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| 7 | 7 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 8 | 8 | AN ACT | |
| 9 | 9 | relating to requiring public schools to make reasonable | |
| 10 | 10 | accommodations for lactating students. | |
| 11 | 11 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 12 | 12 | SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | |
| 13 | 13 | amended by adding Section 38.044 to read as follows: | |
| 14 | 14 | Sec. 38.044. ACCOMMODATIONS FOR LACTATING STUDENTS. The | |
| 15 | 15 | board of trustees of each school district, the governing boards of | |
| 16 | 16 | the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Texas | |
| 17 | 17 | School for the Deaf, and the governing body of each open-enrollment | |
| 18 | 18 | charter school shall provide reasonable accommodations to a | |
| 19 | 19 | lactating student enrolled at the middle or high school level to | |
| 20 | 20 | enable the student to: | |
| 21 | 21 | (1) express breast milk; | |
| 22 | 22 | (2) breast-feed an infant child; and | |
| 23 | 23 | (3) address other needs related to breast-feeding. | |
| 24 | 24 | SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 | |
| 25 | 25 | school year. | |
| 26 | 26 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | |
| 27 | 27 | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | |
| 28 | 28 | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | |
| 29 | 29 | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | |
| 30 | 30 | Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |