PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act
Summary
Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act or the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act This bill expands workplace protections for employees with a need to express breast milk. Specifically, it expands the requirement that employers provide certain accommodations for such an employee to cover salaried employees and other types of workers not covered under existing law. Further, time spent to express breast milk must be considered hours worked if the employee is also working.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced May 17, 2021
Last action May 27, 2021
Floor votes
How they voted
No floor votes recorded yet.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
5
Key actions
2
Committee
3
May 27, 2021
Upper · Passed
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Murray with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
upper
May 25, 2021
Upper · Passed
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
upper
May 17, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
upper
May 17, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 10 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jeff Merkley
DDemocratic
Co
Chris Van Hollen
DDemocratic
Co
Christopher Murphy
DDemocratic
Co
Cory A. Booker
DDemocratic
Co
Lisa Murkowski
RRepublican
Co
Patrick J. Leahy
DDemocratic
Co
Richard Blumenthal
DDemocratic
Co
Robert P. Casey, Jr.
DDemocratic
Co
Sherrod Brown
DDemocratic
Co
Tammy Baldwin
DDemocratic
Co
Tammy Duckworth
DDemocratic
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