Act No. 130
Public Acts of 2024
Approved by the Governor
October 8, 2024
Filed with the Secretary of State
October 8, 2024
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 8, 2024
state of michigan
102nd Legislature
Regular session of 2024
Introduced by Senators Irwin, Geiss, Cavanagh, Bayer, Chang, McMorrow, Santana, Shink and Anthony
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 351
AN ACT to amend 2014 PA 197, entitled “An act to prohibit discriminatory practices, policies, and customs in the exercise of the right to breastfeed; to provide for enforcement of the right to breastfeed; and to provide remedies,” by amending the title and section 2 (MCL 37.232).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
TITLE
An act to prohibit discriminatory practices, policies, and customs in the exercise of the right to breastfeed and express human milk; to provide for enforcement of the right to breastfeed and express human milk; and to provide remedies.
Sec. 2. Unless expressly permitted by a state or federal statute or a regulation promulgated under a state or federal statute, a person with control over a place of public accommodation or public service shall not do any of the following:
(a) Deny the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of a place of public accommodation or public service to an individual because the individual is breastfeeding a child or is expressing human milk.
(b) Print, circulate, post, mail, or otherwise cause to be published a statement, advertisement, notice, or sign that indicates any of the following:
(i) That the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of a place of public accommodation or public service will be refused, withheld from, or denied an individual because the individual is breastfeeding a child or is expressing human milk.
(ii) That an individual’s patronage of or
presence at a place of public accommodation is objectionable, unwelcome,
unacceptable, or undesirable because the individual is breastfeeding a child or
is expressing human milk.
This
act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor