bill adding lactation rooms to invasive recording privacy list

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90R1273 LHC-D

By: Zaffirini
S.B. No. 95

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the prosecution of the offense of invasive visual

recording in a lactation room.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 21.15(a), Penal Code, is amended by

amending Subdivision (3-a) and adding Subdivision (5) to read as

follows:

(3-a) "Place in which a person has a reasonable

expectation of privacy" means a place in which a reasonable person

would believe that the person could disrobe in privacy, without

being concerned that the act of undressing would be photographed or

visually recorded by another or that a visual image of the person

undressing would be broadcasted or transmitted by another. The

term includes a bathroom, bedroom, [ and ] changing room , and

lactation room .

(5) "Lactation room" means a room or portioned area

provided for or primarily used for the purpose of:

(A) expressing breast milk;

(B) breast-feeding an infant child; or

(C) addressing other needs related to

breast-feeding.

SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only

to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.

An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is

governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,

and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For

purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the

effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred

before that date.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2027.