EXPRESS HUMAN MILK; ANTI-DISCRIMINATION S.B. 351:
SUMMARY OF INTRODUCED BILL
IN COMMITTEE
Senate Bill 351 (as introduced 5-23-23) (Senate-passed version)
CONTENT
The bill would amend the Breastfeeding Antidiscrimination Act to prohibit discrimination in places of public accommodation or public service against an individual because the individual was expressing human milk.
Generally, the Breastfeeding Antidiscrimination Act prohibits discriminatory practices, policies, and customs against an individual who breastfeeds. The Act prohibits a person with control over a public accommodation or public service from doing any of the following:
-- Denying the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of a place of public accommodation or public service to a woman because she is breastfeeding a child.
-- Print, circulate, post, mail, or otherwise cause to be published a statement, advertisement, notice, or sign that indicates that the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of a place of public accommodation or public service will be refused, withheld from, or denied a woman because she is breastfeeding a child, or that a woman's patronage of or presence at a place of public accommodation is objectionable, unwelcome, unacceptable, or undesirable because she is breastfeeding a child.
The bill would prohibit a person from discriminating as described above against an individual because the individual was expressing human milk (see BACKGROUND).
MCL 37.232
BACKGROUND
Expressing milk is the process of removing milk from a breast at a time other than when a baby is feeding. There are two methods of expressing milk: 1) using a manual or electric device known as a pump (referred to as 'pumping'); and 2) using hands (referred to as "hand expression").
Legislative Analyst: Alex Krabill
FISCAL IMPACT
The bill would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.
Fiscal Analyst: Cory Savino, PhD
Michael Siracuse
This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.