Covers middle and high school students who need to express breast milk.
The bill requires every Texas public school district, open-enrollment charter school, and the state schools for the blind and deaf to provide reasonable accommodations to lactating students. It covers students at the middle and high school level who need to express breast milk, breast-feed an infant, or handle other breast-feeding needs. Starting with the 2025-2026 school year, those schools must make such accommodations available.
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Labels: ZOMBIE BILL. Died 2 times: 88R SB 1174 by Sen. Eckhardt (Died in committee) and this bill (Died in committee). Checked against 88R only.BACK FROM THE DEAD. Same text as a bill filed before that died: 88R SB 1174 by Sen. Eckhardt (Died in committee). Filed in 2 sessions, counting this one. Checked against 88R only.TRY NO. 2. Filed in 2 sessions: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.NEVER GOT A HEARING. Filed Mar 12, 2025 and referred to the House Public Education committee. No public hearing. The bill died.
relating to requiring public schools to make reasonable
accommodations for lactating students.
WHAT IT DOES
Covers middle and high school students who need to express breast milk.
The bill requires every Texas public school district, open-enrollment charter school, and the state schools for the blind and deaf to provide reasonable accommodations to lactating students. It covers students at the middle and high school level who need to express breast milk, breast-feed an infant, or handle other breast-feeding needs. Starting with the 2025-2026 school year, those schools must make such accommodations available.
89R4372 CMO-D
By: Allen
H.B. No. 4664
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring public schools to make reasonable
accommodations for lactating students.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 38.044 to read as follows:
Sec. 38.044. ACCOMMODATIONS FOR LACTATING STUDENTS. The
board of trustees of each school district, the governing boards of
the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Texas
School for the Deaf, and the governing body of each open-enrollment
charter school shall provide reasonable accommodations to a
lactating student enrolled at the middle or high school level to
enable the student to:
(1) express breast milk;
(2) breast-feed an infant child; and
(3) address other needs related to breast-feeding.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026
school year.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2025.