 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 17, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
        AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to the right to breast
          feed
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 79-e of the civil rights law, as added  by  chapter
     2  98 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  79-e.  Right to breast feed. Notwithstanding any other provision of
     4  law, a [mother] person may breast feed [her] their baby in any location,
     5  public or private, where the [mother] person is otherwise authorized  to
     6  be, irrespective of whether or not the nipple of the [mother's] person's
     7  breast is covered during or incidental to the breast feeding.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05184-01-5
Relates to the right to breast feed

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