[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1848 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1848

  To ensure a woman's right to breastfeed her child on any portion of 
Federal property where the woman and her child are otherwise authorized 
                                 to be.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 18, 1999

 Mrs. Maloney of New York (for herself, Mr. Shays, Ms. Roybal-Allard, 
Mrs. Morella, Ms. Norton, and Mr. Dooley of California) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Government 
                                 Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To ensure a woman's right to breastfeed her child on any portion of 
Federal property where the woman and her child are otherwise authorized 
                                 to be.

    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 ``Right to Breastfeed Act''.

SEC. 2. RIGHT TO BREASTFEED.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a woman may breastfeed 
her child on any portion of Federal property where the woman and her 
child are otherwise authorized to be.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act, the term ``Federal property'' means any building, 
land, or other real property owned, leased, or occupied by any 
department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States (including 
the Department of Defense, the United States Postal Service, and any 
establishment in the legislative or judicial branches of the 
Government), or any other instrumentality wholly owned by the United 
States.
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