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title: O.C.G.A. § 45-1-7. Paid break time and private location for expression of breast milk.
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# O.C.G.A. § 45-1-7. Paid break time and private location for expression of breast milk.

(a) As used in this Code section, the term “agency” means a branch, department, agency, board, bureau, office, commission, public corporation, authority, county, municipal corporation, school district, or other political subdivision of this state.

(b) Each agency shall provide paid break time of a reasonable duration to an employee who desires to express breast milk during work hours at the agency’s worksite. Such break time shall be paid at the employee’s regular rate of compensation. If the employee is paid on a salary basis, the agency shall neither require the salaried employee to use paid leave during any break nor reduce the employee’s salary as a result of the salaried employee taking a break to express breast milk during the workday. No agency shall be required to provide paid break time to an employee on any day that the employee is working away from the agency’s worksite.

(c) Each agency shall provide a room or other location, other than a restroom, in close proximity to the employee’s work area where an employee described in subsection (b) of this Code section can express breast milk in privacy at the agency’s worksite.

(d) No agency shall have liability under this Code section for making reasonable efforts to comply with this Code section.

## History

Code 1981, § 45-1-7, enacted by Ga. L. 2020, p. 818, § 1-2/HB 1090.

## Effective Date

This Code section became effective August 5, 2020.