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S2444 • 2025

Relates to the right to breast feed

Relates to the right to breast feed

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Sponsor
Nathalia Fernandez
Last action
2026-06-01
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relates to the right to breast feed

Relates to the right to breast feed Makes certain terms gender neutral in provisions regarding the right to breast feed.

What This Bill Does

  • Relates to the right to breast feed Makes certain terms gender neutral in provisions regarding the right to breast feed.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-06-01 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  2. 2026-06-01 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  3. 2026-06-01 Assembly

    REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

  4. 2026-04-27 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  5. 2026-04-22 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  6. 2026-04-21 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.799

  7. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    DIED IN ASSEMBLY

  8. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  9. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO CODES

  10. 2025-05-28 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  11. 2025-05-28 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  12. 2025-05-28 Assembly

    REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

  13. 2025-04-15 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  14. 2025-04-10 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  15. 2025-04-09 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.677

  16. 2025-01-17 Senate

    REFERRED TO CODES

Official Summary Text

Relates to the right to breast feed
Makes certain terms gender neutral in provisions regarding the right to breast feed.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2444

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 17, 2025
                                       ___________

        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