PROVIDED SUMMARY
Drowning Prevention Education; Requiring the Department of Health to develop educational materials on drowning prevention safety measures and safe bathing practices for specified purposes; providing requirements for such materials; 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.
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AI-GENERATED
Requires new parents get drowning prevention and safe bathing information.
Requires the Department of Health to create educational materials on drowning prevention and safe bathing, covering infant and toddler drowning risks, constant supervision, swim lessons, and home bathing hazards.
Hospitals, birth centers, home birth providers, and childbirth educators must all give these materials to new parents or caregivers as part of postpartum or childbirth education.
Adds the same requirement into birth centers' postpartum-care checklist and hospitals' postpartum-education law, alongside the safe-sleep and eye-disorder pamphlet requirements that already apply to newborn care.
KEY PROVISIONS
§ 1
DOH must create drowning and bathing safety materials
majors. 383.3363(1)
AIThe Department of Health must develop educational materials covering drowning prevention and safe bathing practices, to be handed out during postpartum and childbirth education statewide.
“shall develop educational materials on drowning prevention safety measures and safe bathing practices”
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§ 2
Hospitals and birth centers must distribute the materials
majors. 383.3363(2)
AIHospitals, birth centers, and home birth providers offering maternity and newborn services must give the department's materials to parents or caregivers of a newborn as part of postpartum care.
“shall provide the educational materials developed under subsection (1) to the parents or caregivers of a newborn”
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§ 3
Materials must promote swim lessons and cite drowning data
moderates. 383.3363(1)(b)
AIThe required content must cite data on infant and toddler drowning risk and specifically promote early swim lessons and water competency programs as extra protection against drowning.
“the benefits of early childhood swimming lessons and water competency programs as an added layer of protection from drowning”
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§ 4
Childbirth educators must also distribute the materials
moderates. 383.3363(3)
AIAnyone providing childbirth education classes must give the drowning-prevention materials to the parents or caregivers taking that education, extending the mandate outside clinical settings.
“Childbirth educators shall provide the educational materials developed under subsection (1) to the parents or caregivers receiving childbirth education.”
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§ 5
Birth centers' postpartum checklist now includes the materials
moderates. 383.318(4)(j)
AIAdds distribution of the drowning-prevention materials as a required item in birth centers' existing postpartum evaluation and follow-up care checklist for clients and infants.
“Provision of the educational materials on drowning prevention safety measures and safe bathing practices developed by the Department of Health”
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§ 6
Hospital postpartum duty restructured into a checklist, adding drowning prevention
moderates. 395.1053
AIRestructures hospitals' existing postpartum-education duty into a three-item list -- safe sleep information, the eye-disorder pamphlet, and the new drowning-prevention materials -- rather than removing any existing requirement.
“provide each parent with postpartum education on the care of newborns, which must include all of the following”
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TIMELINE
3/13/2026
Died on Calendar, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 428 (Ch. 2026-38 )
2/19/2026
Retained on Calendar
2/18/2026
CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
2/17/2026
Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26
2/16/2026
Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
2/13/2026
Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2/12/2026
CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
2/9/2026
On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/12/26, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
2/4/2026
Now in Fiscal Policy
2/4/2026
Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human...
1/30/2026
On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human...
1/22/2026
CS by Health Policy read 1st time
1/22/2026
Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
1/21/2026
Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
1/20/2026
CS by Health Policy; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
1/15/2026
On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/20/26, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
12/9/2025
Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and...
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