Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of HB2522

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB2522

Introduced 2/4/2025, by Rep. Katie Stuart

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

820 ILCS 260/10

Amends the Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act. Provides that an employer shall provide 30 minutes of paid break time (rather than reasonable break time) to an employee who needs to express breast milk for her nursing infant child each time the employee has the need to express milk for one year after the child's birth. Provides that the employee may use other paid break time or meal time for any time needed in excess of 30 minutes. Provides that an employer shall provide paid break time (rather than reasonable break time) as needed by the employee unless to do so would create an undue hardship.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning employment.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act is amended by changing Section 10 as follows:

(820 ILCS 260/10)

Sec. 10. Break time for nursing mothers. An employer shall provide 30 minutes of paid reasonable break time to an employee who needs to express breast milk for her nursing infant child each time the employee has the need to express milk for one year after the child's birth. The break time may run concurrently with any break time already provided to the employee and the employee may use other paid break time or meal time for any time needed in excess of 30 minutes. An employer may not reduce an employee's compensation for time used for the purpose of expressing milk or nursing a baby. An employer shall provide paid reasonable break time as needed by the employee unless to do so would create an undue hardship as defined by item (J) of Section 2-102 of the Illinois Human Rights Act.

(Source: P.A. 100-1003, eff. 8-21-18.)