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Fairness For Breastfeeding Mothers Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill requires certain public buildings that have a public restroom to provide a lactation room, other than a bathroom, that is available for use by members of the public to express milk. The lactation room must be a hygienic place that is shielded from public view and free from intrusion and must contain a chair, a working surface, and an electrical outlet. A public building may be excluded from such requirement at the discretion of the official responsible for its operation if: it does not contain a lactation room for employees and does not have a space that could be repurposed as one or that could be made private by using portable materials, at a reasonable cost; or the cost of new construction required to create a lactation room is not feasible.

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Eleanor Holmes Norton (D)*,  Barbara Comstock (R),  Peter DeFazio (D),  Hank Johnson (D), 

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (on 03/08/2017)

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