Summary

Requires every Department of Veterans Affairs medical center to provide a designated lactation space that meets standards set in the law, and directs the VA Secretary to install those spaces on a staged timetable. The Secretary must report progress to congressional veterans’ committees on the rollout until every medical center has a compliant lactation space.

• Requires every VA medical center to have a designated lactation space that meets statutory standards.
• Directs the VA Secretary to install lactation spaces on a staged timetable with required progress reports to congressional veterans’ committees.
• Reporting to Congress continues until all VA medical centers have compliant lactation spaces, at which point reporting ends.
• The law specifies standards and functional requirements for the lactation spaces (detailed elements are in the statutory text).
• Applies to VA facility operations; the VA is responsible for planning, implementing, and certifying compliance.
• Focuses on facility accessibility and workplace/patient accommodations for nursing parents using VA centers.
• Does not itself appropriate funding or modify tax or broader entitlement programs.
• Creates administrative duties for VA (project management, reporting) but is limited in scope to VA medical centers.