Monitoring the SessionSB 349
Died in committee
Initial review · graded Oct 20, 2026 · Headline, summary and grade are analysis of the bill text, not a finding about any person · How we grade
relating to requiring public schools to make reasonable accommodations for lactating students.
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Middle and high schoolers get room to express milk or breast-feed.
The bill requires every Texas public school district, open-enrollment charter school, and the state schools for the blind and the deaf to provide reasonable accommodations to lactating middle and high school students. Those accommodations must let the student express breast milk, breast-feed an infant child, and handle other needs related to breast-feeding. Starting with the 2025-2026 school year, schools have a new duty to accommodate student mothers, though the bill does not spell out what counts as reasonable.
Labels: ZOMBIE BILL. Died 2 times: 88R SB 1174 (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 (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 Nov 13, 2024 and referred to the Senate Education K-16 committee. No public hearing. The bill died.
89R-SB349 · 2024-11-13
+ 2 more authors, 1 coauthor
relating to requiring public schools to make reasonable accommodations for lactating students.
Middle and high schoolers get room to express milk or breast-feed.
The bill requires every Texas public school district, open-enrollment charter school, and the state schools for the blind and the deaf to provide reasonable accommodations to lactating middle and high school students. Those accommodations must let the student express breast milk, breast-feed an infant child, and handle other needs related to breast-feeding. Starting with the 2025-2026 school year, schools have a new duty to accommodate student mothers, though the bill does not spell out what counts as reasonable.
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Analysis of text version I by claude-opus-5-5, Oct 20, 2026, against the published rubric.
Filed 2 times: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.
by Sen. Eckhardt, same lead author · Died in committee · same text
Introduced textLast action, Mar 9, 2023: Referred to Education
Relating to requiring public schools to make reasonable accommodations for lactating students.
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Texas Senate · Filed Nov 13, 2024
02/03/2025 S Referred to Education K-16
Texas Legislature Online · Introduced
Data snapshot Oct 26, 2026 at 4:20 AM CDT. Grades, charges, quotes and corrections follow the published record.
Senate committee · Education K-16 · Final status: Died in committee
HB 4664 by Allen (identical)
Education--Primary & Secondary--General
Education--School Districts
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BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED, TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE
DEAF, TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE
The text as introduced · 199 words
89R4372 CMO-D By: Eckhardt, et al. S.B. No. 349 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.
