[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1478 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1478

 To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect breastfeeding by new 
                                mothers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 20, 1999

   Mrs. Maloney of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect breastfeeding by new 
                                mothers.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pregnancy Discrimination Act 
Amendments of 1999''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO TITLE VII OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964.

    Section 701(k) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e(k)) 
is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``breastfeeding,'' after ``childbirth'', 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following: ``For purposes of 
        this subsection, the term `breastfeeding' means the feeding of 
        a child directly from the breast or the expression of milk from 
        the breast by a lactating woman.''.
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