The Right to Breastfeed

Provided Courtesy of:

EMH Regional Medical Center
Family Birthing Center
Lactation Consultation Services
(440) 329-7466
630 East River
Elyria, OH 44035

Our Mission Statement:

To educate our community on the importance of promoting, preserving, and protecting breastfeeding.

AN ACT

To enact section 3781.55 of the Revised Code to require any place of public accommodation to allow a mother to breast-feed within the place of public accommodation.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:
Section 1. That section 3781.55 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 3781.55. A mother is entitled to breast- feed her baby in any location of a place of public accommodation where in the mother otherwise is permitted.

"Place of public accommodation" has the same meaning as in section 4112.01 of the Revised Code.