Existing law requires employers, including the state, to provide a reasonable amount of break time to employees desiring to express breast milk. Employers are also required to make reasonable efforts to provide the use of a room, or other location, other than a toilet stall, in close proximity to the employees’ work area, for the employee to express milk in private.

This bill would require every state agency and department, including local offices, when notified by a female employee that she is nearing maternity leave, to notify the employee, through its usual channels of communication with state employees and in the most cost-effective manner, of specified information regarding breast-feeding, including an explanation and summary of the provisions described above relating to lactation accommodation, information regarding lactation accommodation on the Internet Web site of the Department of Public Health, and a listing of other comprehensive breast-feeding support organizations with Internet links.