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[H.R. 866 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.866

                     One Hundred Sixteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday,
           the third day of January, two thousand and nineteen


                                 An Act


 
            To provide a lactation room in public buildings.

    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 ``Fairness For Breastfeeding Mothers 
Act of 2019''.
SEC. 2. LACTATION ROOM IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
    (a) Lactation Room in Public Buildings.--Chapter 33 of title 40, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
section:
``Sec. 3318. Lactation room in public buildings
    ``(a) Definitions.--In this section:
        ``(1) Appropriate authority.--The term `appropriate authority' 
    means the head of a Federal agency, the Architect of the Capitol, 
    or other official authority responsible for the operation of a 
    public building.
        ``(2) Covered public building.--The term `covered public 
    building' means a public building (as defined in section 3301) that 
    is open to the public and contains a public restroom, and includes 
    a building listed in section 6301 or 5101.
        ``(3) Lactation room.--The term `lactation room' means a 
    hygienic place, other than a bathroom, that--
            ``(A) is shielded from view;
            ``(B) is free from intrusion; and
            ``(C) contains a chair, a working surface, and, if the 
        public building is otherwise supplied with electricity, an 
        electrical outlet.
    ``(b) Lactation Room Required.--Except as provided in subsection 
(c), the appropriate authority of a covered public building shall 
ensure that the building contains a lactation room that is made 
available for use by members of the public to express breast milk.
    ``(c) Exceptions.--A covered public building may be excluded from 
the requirement in subsection (b) at the discretion of the appropriate 
authority if--
        ``(1) the public building--
            ``(A) does not contain a lactation room for employees who 
        work in the building; and
            ``(B) does not have a room that could be repurposed as a 
        lactation room or a space that could be made private using 
        portable materials, at a reasonable cost; or
        ``(2) new construction would be required to create a lactation 
    room in the public building and the cost of such construction is 
    unfeasible.
    ``(d) No Unauthorized Entry.--Nothing in this section shall be 
construed to authorize an individual to enter a public building or 
portion thereof that the individual is not otherwise authorized to 
enter.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 33 of title 40, United States Code, is amended by inserting 
after the item related to section 3316 the following new item:

``3318. Lactation room in public buildings.''.

    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.