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]

Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
Senate	Third Reading in Senate	2012-05-17	57	0	2	0	59	Passed	Link	View
House	Third Reading in House	2012-03-21	107	0	0	2	109	Passed	Link	View

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