Bill Text: IA SF183 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to institutional health facilities under the newborn safe haven Act. (See SF 360.)

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-20 - Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. [SF183 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF183-Introduced.html

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Senate File 183 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  SCHNEIDER

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to institutional health facilities under the
  2    newborn safe haven Act.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 233.1, subsection 2, paragraph a, Code
  1  2 2017, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    a.  "Institutional health facility" means any of the
  1  4 following:
  1  5    (1)  a A hospital as defined in section 135B.1, including
  1  6 a facility providing medical or health services that is open
  1  7 twenty=four hours per day, seven days per week and is a
  1  8 hospital emergency room or a health care facility as defined
  1  9 in section 135C.1.
  1 10    (2)  An emergency medical care provider who provides
  1 11 emergency medical services as defined in section 147A.1.
  1 12    (3)  A licensed emergency care facility, as defined in
  1 13 section 147A.21, that is a freestanding facility.
  1 14    (4)  A licensed child=placing agency, as defined in section
  1 15 238.1, that meets all of the following criteria:
  1 16    (a)  Agrees to act as a designated emergency infant care
  1 17 provider.
  1 18    (b)  Employs a licensed registered nurse or another
  1 19 individual who performs reasonable acts necessary to protect
  1 20 the physical health or safety of the newborn infant.
  1 21                           EXPLANATION
  1 22 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 23 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 24    This bill relates to institutional health facilities
  1 25 authorized under the newborn safe haven Act to accept the
  1 26 voluntary relinquishment of physical custody of a newborn
  1 27 infant by a parent of a newborn infant up to 14 days old, or by
  1 28 a person authorized by the parent, without fear of prosecution
  1 29 for abandonment.
  1 30    Under current law, "institutional health facility" means
  1 31 a hospital including a facility providing medical or health
  1 32 services that is open 24 hours per day, seven days per week and
  1 33 is a hospital emergency room or a health care facility.
  1 34    The bill expands the definition of "institutional health
  1 35 facility" to include an emergency medical care provider who
  2  1 provides emergency medical services, a freestanding licensed
  2  2 emergency medical care facility, and a licensed child=placing
  2  3 agency that meets certain criteria.
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