Friday, September 23, 2005

Panel defeats proposals on breast-feeding (East Valley Tribune)

A stalemate over whether businesses should be forced to accommodate nursing moms will keep a Chandler task force from making its deadline to recommend an ordinance on breast-feeding in public.

Chandler’s breast-feeding task force twice voted 4-3 Thursday against two versions of a proposed ordinance aimed at protecting nursing mothers. Recommendations were to be due at the City Council’s Sept. 29 meeting.

Now, the group plans to meet that day to decide if there’s some middle ground between one proposed law that would forbid businesses from excluding nursing women and a version that states breast-feeding is allowed, unless a business owner says otherwise.



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