Resources for Lactating Students

 

AB2785

“ California Assembly Bill 2785 requires the California State University (CSU) and encourages satellite campuses of the CSU to provide reasonable accommodations to a lactating student on respective campuses to express breast milk, breast-feed an infant child, or address other needs related to breast-feeding. These accommodations include, but are not limited to, all of the following:

(1) Access to a private and secure room, other than a restroom, to express breast milk or breast-feed an infant child. The room shall have a comfortable place to sit and have a table or shelf to place equipment described in paragraph (3).

(2) Permission to bring onto a college or university campus a breast pump and any other equipment used to express breast milk.

(3) Access to a power source for a breast pump or any other equipment used to express breast milk.

The bill requires CSU campuses to provide a sink, in addition to the accommodations described above, upon the construction of a new campus of the CSU, the replacement, expansion, or renovation of an existing building regularly used by students, or the construction of a new building designed for use by students, as specified. This bill does not require an existing room designated for a lactating student to contain a sink. The bill also requires that a lactating student on a CSU campus be given a reasonable amount of time to accommodate the need to express breast milk or breast-feed an infant child, and that the accommodation be available whenever a student is required to be on campus. The bill prohibits students from incurring an academic penalty as a result of their use of these reasonable accommodations. The bill authorizes a complaint of noncompliance with the requirements of the bill to be filed in accordance with specified procedures, and, if the complaint is found to have merit, would require the respective campus or appellate body to provide a remedy to the affected student.”

Lactation Spaces 

https://www.csusm.edu/wgec/parenting/lactation_spaces.html

For parents who are breastfeeding, the following lactation rooms are available at CSU San Marcos for student, staff, and faculty use. 

Women and Gender Equity Center (USU 3200C)

The Women and Gender Equity Center has a private lactation room for individuals to pump or nurse during the day. A staff member at the front desk can unlock the door to gain access to the room. They can utilize the Commuter Lounge refrigerated lockers on the first floor to store their breast milk. The lactation room is available for students, staff, and faculty.

If the WGEC is closed, USU Building Staff can facilitate access to the lactation space during USU Building Hours. They can either go to the USU Help Desk on the 4th Floor or call them at (760) 750-7450.

Administrative Building 6312

A private Nursing Mother’s Room is available in the Administrative Building 6312, on a first-come-first serve basis. The Administrative Building lactation room has a hospital grade lactation pump for parents who want to leave their pump at home.  The pump requires a Medela Lactina Double Pumping System. Please contact HREOx4418 to obtain the locker combination to access the pump.

Kellogg 3017

KEL 3017 is available for use during all Library operating hours (see Library Hours).

Check out a key in KEL 3000 between 8 - 5 M-F, and at the 3rd floor Circulation Desk outside of these hours when the full building is open. During overnight hours or when building operations are otherwise limited to the 2nd floor, check out the key at the 2nd floor Media Library service desk.

Extended Learning Building 544

 A lactation room will be located on level five and will be accessible to staff, faculty and students during normal business hours. 

Refrigerator available to safely store breastmilk in addition to a sink and changing table.