Full Text of SB0506 94th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning children.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Shaken | 5 |
| Baby Prevention Act. | 6 |
| Section 5. Definitions. In this Act: | 7 |
| "Department" means the Department of Public Health. | 8 |
| "Director" means the Director of Public Health. | 9 |
| "Parent" means a biological mother or father, | 10 |
| foster-mother or father, adoptive mother or father, or | 11 |
| step-mother or step-father. | 12 |
| "Primary caregiver" means any person who is not a parent, | 13 |
| but who provides temporary care to an infant or child, | 14 |
| including but not limited to, a babysitter, child care | 15 |
| provider, extended family member, nanny, or custodian.
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| "Shaken baby" means the vigorous shaking of an infant or a | 17 |
| young child that may result in bleeding inside the head and | 18 |
| cause one or more of the following conditions: irreversible | 19 |
| brain damage; blindness, retinal hemorrhage, or eye damage; | 20 |
| cerebral palsy; hearing loss; spinal cord injury, including | 21 |
| paralysis; seizures; learning disability; central nervous | 22 |
| system injury; closed head injury; rib fracture; subdural | 23 |
| hematoma; or death. | 24 |
| Section 10. Shaken Baby Prevention Program. Subject to | 25 |
| appropriation, the Director shall establish a statewide Shaken | 26 |
| Baby Prevention Program to educate parents and primary | 27 |
| caregivers about the dangers of shaken baby and to provide | 28 |
| alternative techniques to venting anger and frustration. The | 29 |
| program shall allow for voluntary participation and use | 30 |
| multimedia educational vehicles, such as a video recording, to | 31 |
| target the parents and primary caregivers of babies from birth |
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| through 3 years of age. Parents of newborns may choose to sign | 2 |
| a participation form and fill out an evaluation form to record | 3 |
| their participation in the program after viewing the multimedia | 4 |
| educational materials. The Director, or the Director's | 5 |
| designee, shall develop companion written materials, a program | 6 |
| participation form, and an evaluation form. The Director shall | 7 |
| designate and enter into contracts with experts, health care | 8 |
| providers, and other State agencies to design and implement the | 9 |
| program in all hospitals and child care facilities. | 10 |
| Section 15. Local health departments. Local health | 11 |
| departments shall assist the Director in implementing and | 12 |
| administering the Shaken Baby Prevention Program in local | 13 |
| hospitals and child care facilities. Local health departments' | 14 |
| specific duties may include, but are not limited to, | 15 |
| distributing the multimedia program materials and assisting in | 16 |
| the collection of the data on program participation and the | 17 |
| program evaluation forms for the Department's annual report | 18 |
| required under Section 30. | 19 |
| Section 20. Responsibilities of hospitals, health care | 20 |
| providers, and child care providers. | 21 |
| (a) Every hospital, maternal or pediatric health care | 22 |
| provider, and child care provider shall encourage parents and | 23 |
| primary caregivers to participate in the voluntary Shaken Baby | 24 |
| Prevention Program by: | 25 |
| (1) informing parents of all newborn children about the | 26 |
| program;
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| (2) making available to parents the shaken baby | 28 |
| awareness and prevention multimedia materials provided by | 29 |
| the Department; | 30 |
| (3) making program participation forms developed by | 31 |
| the Department available for signing by parents after | 32 |
| viewing the multimedia materials; and | 33 |
| (4) keeping all program participation forms and | 34 |
| evaluation forms on file. |
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| (b) Hospitals shall report to the Department by no later | 2 |
| than the first of November of each year: (i) the total number | 3 |
| of births that occurred at the hospital that year; (ii) the | 4 |
| total number of viewings of the shaken baby multimedia | 5 |
| educational materials; and (iii) the total number of Shaken | 6 |
| Baby Prevention Program participation forms signed at the | 7 |
| hospital. All evaluation forms filled out during the year shall | 8 |
| be forwarded to the Department with that data. | 9 |
| Section 25. Parent support service. The Department may | 10 |
| establish and operate a voluntary support service for parents | 11 |
| who struggle with infant crying. The support service may | 12 |
| include, but need not be limited to, telephone consultation and | 13 |
| referrals to appropriate professional assistance. | 14 |
| Section 30. Annual report. The Department shall make an | 15 |
| annual report to the General Assembly of its findings and | 16 |
| recommendations concerning the effectiveness, impact, and | 17 |
| benefits derived from the Shaken Baby Prevention Program. The | 18 |
| report shall contain evaluations of the program and | 19 |
| recommendations for legislation deemed necessary and proper. | 20 |
| The Department shall submit the report on or before the first | 21 |
| day of January, beginning in 2007.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | 23 |
| 1, 2006.
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