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. Also, the bill would also amend this law to apply to surrendering infants up 10 days old, instead of the current three days.
Referred to the Committee on Families, Children and Seniors
