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HI SB532

Bill

Status

Passed

7/9/2013

Primary Sponsor

Suzanne Chun Oakland

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Origin

Senate

2013 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Require certain employers to provide reasonable break time and a private location for employees to express breast milk at work

  • Mandate covered employers post conspicuous notice informing employees of their breastfeeding accommodation rights and protections

  • Establish civil penalties for violations of breastfeeding workplace accommodation requirements

  • Allow smaller employers to claim hardship exemption only where the measure's requirements would create undue hardship, not as automatic exemption

  • Maintain existing protections in Hawaii Revised Statutes section 378-10 prohibiting employers from preventing employees from expressing breast milk during meal breaks or other required breaks

Legislative Description

Breastfeeding; Workplace Accommodation

Last Action

Act 249, 7/1/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1352).

7/9/2013

Committee Referrals

Finance3/22/2013
Judiciary3/15/2013
Labor & Public Employment3/7/2013
Judiciary and Labor1/22/2013

Full Bill Text

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