Bill Text: IL HB4968 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Creates the Hospital Infant Feeding Act. Provides that every hospital that provides birthing services must adopt an infant feeding policy that promotes breastfeeding. Requires a hospital to routinely communicate the infant feeding policy to staff in the hospital's obstetric and neonatal areas; authorizes posting of the policy on the hospital's Internet or Intranet web site or on the Internet or Intranet web site of the health system of which the hospital is a part. Requires that the policy apply to all mother-infant couplets in the hospital's obstetric and neonatal areas. Effective January 1, 2013.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-2)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0713 [HB4968 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB4968-Amended.html

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Rep. Robyn Gabel

Filed: 3/2/2012

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4968
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4968 as follows:
on page 1, immediately below line 14, by inserting the
following:
"Infant nutrition resource" means breastfeeding education
and infant formula safety and preparation."; and
on page 1, line 20, by changing "may" to "shall"; and
on page 1, line 21, after "for", by inserting "medically
necessary"; and
on page 2, line 7, by replacing "is" with "and infant nutrition
resources are".