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Miss. Code Ann. § 43-20-31

Department of Health to promulgate regulations for child care facilities to promote breast-feeding by mothers of children being cared for in facility

Known as the Mississippi Child Care Licensing Law

The act spans §§ 43–43 (24 sections).

Laws, 2006, ch. 520, § 11, eff from and after passage (approved Apr. 3, 2006.

The Department of Health shall promulgate regulations to ensure that licensed child care facilities shall be required to comply with the following:

Breast-feeding mothers, including employees, shall be provided a sanitary place that is not a toilet stall to breast-feed their children or express milk. This area shall provide an electrical outlet, comfortable chair, and nearby access to running water.

A refrigerator will be made available for storage of expressed breast milk following guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics and Centers for Disease Control in ensuring that breast milk is properly treated to avoid waste. Universal precautions are not required in handling human milk.

Staff shall be trained in the safe and proper storage and handling of human milk.

Breast-feeding promotion information will be displayed in order to positively promote breast-feeding to the clients of the facility.

Such other requirements as the Board of Health finds desirable or necessary to promote and protect breast-feeding.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.