Introduced
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To revise a “<a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/1999-2000/billanalysis/House/htm/1999-HLA-5543-B.htm">safe delivery of newborns</a>” law passed in 2000, which provides legal protections to a mother who surrenders a newborn to an emergency service provider. This would allow hospitals to install a “newborn safety device” similar in operation to a bank drive-up window or library book return slot, except it would be clean, safe, warm visible to people inside the hospital, and designed to trigger a 911-call and a notice to staff within 30 seconds that there’s a baby inside. This is intended to let a mother surrender a baby anonymously.
Referred to the Committee on Families, Children and Seniors
