Date of enactment: March 10, 2010
2009 Assembly Bill 57 Date of publication*: March 24, 2010
* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2007-08 : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].
2009 WISCONSIN ACT 148
An Act to create 253.16 of the statutes; relating to: permitting a mother to breast-feed in any public or private location where she and her child are otherwise authorized to be.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
148,1 Section 1. 253.16 of the statutes is created to read:
253.16 Right to breast-feed. A mother may breast-feed her child in any public or private location where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be. In such a location, no person may prohibit a mother from breast-feeding her child, direct a mother to move to a different location to breast-feed her child, direct a mother to cover her child or breast while breast-feeding, or otherwise restrict a mother from breast-feeding her child as provided in this section.
148,2 Section 2. Initial applicability.
(1) Right to breast-feed. This act first applies to acts occurring on the effective date of this subsection.
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