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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1787
Author: Lowenthal (D), et al.
Amended: 8/12/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 11-0, 6/17/14
AYES: DeSaulnier, Gaines, Beall, Cannella, Galgiani, Hueso,
Lara, Liu, Pavley, Roth, Wyland
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 72-5, 5/28/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Airports: lactation accommodation
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill requires airports operated by a city,
county, city and county or airport district to provide a private
room in each terminal, behind the airport security screening
area and separate from a public restroom, where women can
express breast milk.
ANALYSIS : Existing law requires an employer to provide a
reasonable period to accommodate an employee desiring to express
breast milk for her infant child. Existing law also requires an
employer to provide an employee with the use of a room or other
location, other than a toilet stall, in close proximity to the
employee's work area, for an employee to express milk in
private.
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This bill:
1.Requires commercial airports operated by a city, county, city
and county or airport district with more than one million
enplanements per year to provide, by January 1, 2016, a room
or other location in each terminal behind the security
screening area for women to express breast milk in private.
2.Requires this lactation area to be located outside a public
restroom and to include, at minimum, a chair and an electrical
outlet.
3.Exempts Terminal One at the San Diego International Airport
from providing a lactation area behind the security gate, but
requires it to provide a lactation area before the security
gate. Specifies Terminal One shall comply with this bill upon
construction of a new terminal or replacement, expansion or
renovation of an existing terminal.
4.Exempts the existing commuter terminal at San Diego
International Airport until construction of a new terminal or
the replacement expansion or renovation of the existing
terminal.
5.Requires smaller commercial airports (fewer than one million
enplanements per year) to comply with this bill when
constructing a new terminal or when replacing, expanding, or
renovating an existing terminal.
6.Requires all airports to provide a sink in any lactation area
when constructing a new terminal or when replacing, expanding,
or renovating an existing terminal.
7.Defines "renovation or existing terminal" as repurposing of
more than 25% of the space in the terminal.
Comments
Purpose of this bill . The author's office states that according
to the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee, women with infants and
children are the fastest growing segment of the workforce. The
author's office states that experts and advocates maintain that
breastfeeding is an important need for many working mothers in
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California and the lack of lactation support services in the
workplace and beyond can have broad fiscal and public health
ramifications for employers and employees. The author's office
states that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
report that 56.8% of women exclusively breastfeed at three
months, but this number drops dramatically to 27.4% at six
months. While many factors can lead to this drop-off, surveys
suggest that limited accommodations are a factor. The author's
office states that only one California airport - San Francisco
International Airport (SFO) - offers private rooms for
breastfeeding mothers. SFO currently has nine nurseries and is
planning to add four more.
Current facilities . According the California Building Standards
Commission, there are currently no mandatory or voluntary
building standards for designated lactation areas in airports.
Because state law does not prohibit provision of lactation
areas, local jurisdictions may allow such areas in buildings as
long as the areas meet disability access requirements for public
accommodations. Some California airports provide related
accommodations; for example, SFO provides companion bathrooms
and locking nurseries and Sacramento International Airport
provides family bathrooms that offer extra privacy, extra room,
and electrical outlets for breast pumps.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/12/14)
American Academy of Pediatrics, California
American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists District IX
California
Association of Flight Attendants - CWA, AFL-CIO, Council 11
Breastfeed LA
California Breastfeeding Coalition
California Center for Public Health Advocacy
California Communities United Institute
California WIC Association
Limerick Inc.
Los Angeles Lactation
Mamava
Zero to Three Western Office
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ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : The California Breastfeeding Coalition
states:
Environmental barriers continue to thwart employed mothers who
wish to continue working and need to express breastmilk. Many
mothers who must travel struggle to find appropriate space in
a public setting to express milk and the need is great. For
example, LAX has approximately 75 million visitors a year.
About 5% of the female population is pregnant or
breastfeeding, therefore about 1.5 million potentially
breastfeeding women may need this accommodation at that
airport.
This legislation would require airports to provide equal
treatment for California women and encourage tourism by
promoting family friendly accommodations. Whether women are
using airports for business or personal travel, they deserve
to be accommodated appropriately and equal to their needs.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 72-5, 5/28/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Ammiano, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla,
Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau,
Ch�vez, Chesbro, Cooley, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson,
Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez,
Gordon, Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hall, Roger Hern�ndez, Holden,
Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi,
Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A.
P�rez, V. Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon,
Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner,
Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NOES: Allen, Bigelow, Beth Gaines, Hagman, Harkey
NO VOTE RECORDED: Conway, Donnelly, Vacancy
JA:k 8/12/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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