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Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. 26 MRSA §604  is enacted to read:
§ 604.  Nursing mothers in the workplace
An employer, as defined in section 603, subsection 1, paragraph A, shall provide adequate unpaid break time or permit an employee to use paid break time or meal time each day to express breast milk for her nursing child for up to 3 years following childbirth. The employer shall make reasonable efforts to provide a clean room or other location, other than a bathroom, where an employee may express breast milk in privacy. An employer may not discriminate in any way against an employee who chooses to express breast milk in the workplace.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment clarifies that an employer, including the State, shall make reasonable efforts to provide a clean room or other location, other than a bathroom, where an employee may express breast milk in privacy. The time used may be unpaid break time or paid break time or meal time at the discretion of the employer.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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