Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 191.918 - Breast-feeding in public permitted - not sexual conduct, public indecency, or obscenity - no municipal ordinances to prohibit or restrict1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a mother may, with discretion, breast-feed her child or express breast milk in any public or private location where the mother is otherwise authorized to be.2. The act of a mother breast-feeding a child or expressing breast milk in a public or private location where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be shall not:(1) Constitute sexual conduct or sexual contact as defined in section 566.010; or(2) Be considered an act of public indecency, indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewd touching, or obscenity or any other similar term for purposes of state or municipal law.3. A municipality shall not enact an ordinance prohibiting or restricting a mother from breast-feeding a child or expressing breast milk in a public or private location where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be.Amended by 2014 Mo. Laws, HB 1320,s A, eff. 8/28/2014.