No. SB 428
Filed under Healthcare.
Drowning Prevention; Revising the purpose of the Swimming Lesson Voucher Program; revising the age requirements for children receiving a voucher through the program; requiring the Department of Health to develop educational materials on drowning prevention safety measures and safe bathing practices for specified purposes; requiring hospitals, birth centers, and home birth providers to provide the educational materials to new parents and caregivers as part of their postpartum education and care, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe Department of Health must create educational materials on drowning prevention and safe bathing, covering water-safety data, supervision, swim lessons, and safe bathing practices for infants and toddlers.
Hospitals, birth centers, home birth providers, and childbirth educators must all give these materials to parents or caregivers as part of postpartum or childbirth education, reaching nearly every new parent in the state.
Hospitals must now list drowning-prevention materials alongside safe-sleep information and the vision-disorders pamphlet as required parts of postpartum education given to every parent. Birth centers add the same materials to their required postpartum checklist.
The swimming-lesson voucher program's age range also shifts, from children up to age 4 to children between 1 and 7. Infants under 1 lose voucher eligibility, while 5-, 6-, and 7-year-olds gain it.
AIThe Department of Health has to develop educational materials covering the drowning risk infants and toddlers face in bathtubs and pools, water-safety measures like constant supervision and swim lessons, and evidence-based safe bathing practices.
AIHospitals, birth centers, and home birth providers offering maternity, prenatal, or newborn services must give the drowning-prevention and safe-bathing materials to every newborn's parents or caregivers as part of postpartum education and care.
AIA hospital's postpartum education duty is rewritten from one loosely worded sentence into three specific items that must each be affirmatively provided to every parent: safe-sleep/SIDS information, the eye-and-vision-disorders pamphlet, and now the drowning-prevention materials.
AIAnyone teaching a childbirth education class, not just hospitals and licensed birth facilities, must give these same materials to the parents or caregivers taking that class.
AIBirth centers' existing checklist of required postpartum evaluation and care items gains a new entry: giving parents the drowning-prevention and safe-bathing materials the Department of Health develops.
AIThe free swimming-lesson voucher program used to cover any child 4 years old or younger, including infants. It now covers only children between 1 and 7, so infants under 1 lose eligibility while 5-, 6-, and 7-year-olds gain it.