From the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition:
1) We need your action NOW on a bill in the US House of Reps, by Carolyn Maloney, the Breastfeeding Promotion Act, HR 2236. The bill currently has only 23 cosponsors, and needs about 200 cosponsors to move forward. The only current cosponsors from MA are Reps. Frank and Olver. Please contact your Rep now and urge him/her to cosponsor this bill.
To contact your Representative about this bill, you can either go through MomsRising at:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/momsrising/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=13731 or the Children's Hospital advocacy page at: http://capwiz.com/childadvocacy/home/
This bill makes breastpumps tax deductible, provides for safety standards for them, and gives incentives to employers to help moms pump. To read the text of the bill, and see a list of cosponsors, go to: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-2236
2) As you may have heard in the news, state Sen. Fargo's bill on breastfeeding in public easily passed the Senate, and has moved on to the House. Her office is currently soliciting letters of support from leading health organizations to help move this bill forward. The bill, formerly S78, has been renumbered S 2438, and no longer includes worksite measures. We support this bill!
The text is at http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/185/st02pdf/st02438.pdf
Melissa Bartick, MD
Mass. Breastfeeding Coalition
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