STATE OF NEW YORK
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2444
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 17, 2025
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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
