[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 256 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 256

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 6, 2001

   Ms. Snowe introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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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 2001''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS 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,'' 
        each place it appears; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following: ``In 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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