The Breastfeeding Promotion Act:
• amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect breastfeeding women from being fired or discriminated against in the workplace.
• provides tax incentives for businesses that establish private lactation areas in the workplace.
• provides for a performance standard for breast pumps.
• allows breastfeeding equipment to be tax deductible for families.

Currently, 38 states and Puerto Rico have laws on their books protecting the rights of women to breastfeed.  The Breastfeeding Promotion Act would move beyond the patchwork of state laws and establish a national protection for breastfeeding mothers. 

The following Representatives are original co-sponsors of Congresswoman Meghan Maloney’s “Breastfeeding Promotion Act”: Keith Ellison (D-MN); Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX); Barbara Lee (D-CA); Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY); John Olver (D-MA); Bobby Rush (D-IL); Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (D-OH); Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA).

It has been sent forward to the Ways and Means, Education and Labor and Energy and Commerce Committees.  Please write your  representatives that you’re in support of this legislation, especially if they are members of any of the mentioned committees.  For sample letters you may consider www.momsrising.org, who presented more information on this bill at the United States Breastfeeding Committee meeting of Coalitions in Arlington, Va. on Jan. 28, 2008.