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H.R. 1941: Supporting Working Moms Act of 2013

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H.R. 1941: Supporting Working Moms Act of 2013

113th Congress · introduced 2013-05-09 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2013-05-09 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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What does this mean?

Official title

Supporting Working Moms Act of 2013

Plain summary

Supporting Working Moms Act of 2013 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to extend the requirement that certain employers provide reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child to bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity employees or outside salesmen who are exempt from federal labor laws that limit the number of hours in a workweek.

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Official text

Supporting Working Moms Act of 2013

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12] · 23 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Gwen Moore (D-WI), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL)

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Exemption
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Sources

Record fed-us-cong113-hr1941 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113