Senate Bill sb1766c1

    Florida Senate - 2002                           CS for SB 1766

    By the Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care; and
    Senator Sullivan




    317-2019-02

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to "Shaken-Baby Syndrome";

  3         requiring hospitals and birth centers to give

  4         to new parents informational brochures

  5         concerning the dangers of shaking babies and

  6         young children; requiring the Department of

  7         Health to prepare the brochures; prescribing

  8         the contents of the brochures; providing that a

  9         cause of action against specified persons and

10         entities does not accrue as a result of failure

11         to give this information; providing for a fine

12         for violations; providing an effective date.

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14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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16         Section 1.  Dangers of shaking infants and young

17  children; hospitals and birth centers required to distribute

18  brochures.--

19         (1)  Every hospital that has maternity and newborn

20  services and every birth center shall provide to the parents

21  of a newborn, before they take their newborn home from the

22  hospital or birth center, information concerning the dangers

23  of shaking infants and young children.

24         (2)  The Department of Health shall prepare a brochure

25  that describes the dangers of shaking infants and young

26  children. The description must include information concerning

27  the grave effects of shaking infants and young children,

28  information concerning appropriate ways to manage the causes

29  that can lead a person to shake infants and young children,

30  and a discussion of ways to reduce the risks that can lead a

31  person to shake infants and young children.

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    Florida Senate - 2002                           CS for SB 1766
    317-2019-02




  1         (3)  This section does not preclude a hospital's or a

  2  birth center's providing the notice required under this

  3  section as an addendum to, or in connection with, any other

  4  required information.

  5         (4)  A cause of action does not accrue against the

  6  state or any subdivision or agency thereof or any hospital or

  7  any birth center for failure to give or receive the

  8  information required under this section.

  9         (5)  Any hospital or birth center that continues to

10  violate this section after having received from the Department

11  of Health written notice that a violation of this section has

12  occurred and after having been given an opportunity to be

13  heard is subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed

14  $500.

15         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

16  law.

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18          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
19                         Senate Bill 1766

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21  The bill requires birth centers, in addition to hospitals, to
    provide information to parents concerning the dangers of
22  shaking infants and young children.

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