(210 ILCS 85/11.9)
    (Text of Section from P.A. 103-605)
    Sec. 11.9. Maternal milk donation education.
    (a) To ensure an adequate supply of pasteurized donor human milk for premature infants in Illinois, a hospital with licensed obstetric beds shall provide information and instructional materials to parents of each newborn, upon discharge from the hospital, regarding the option to voluntarily donate milk to nonprofit milk banks that are accredited by the Human Milk Banking Association of North America or its successor organization. The materials shall be provided free of charge and shall include general information regarding nonprofit milk banking practices and contact information for area nonprofit milk banks that are accredited by the Human Milk Banking Association of North America.
    (b) The information and instructional materials described in subsection (a) may be provided electronically.
    (c) Nothing in this Section prohibits a hospital from obtaining free and suitable information on voluntary milk donation from the Human Milk Banking Association of North America, its successor organization, or its accredited members.
(Source: P.A. 103-160, eff. 1-1-24; 103-605, eff. 7-1-24.)
 
    (Text of Section from P.A. 103-948)
    (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)
    Sec. 11.9. Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth; notification. This Section may be referred to as Liam's Law.
    A hospital having custody of a fetus following a spontaneous fetal death occurring during or after a gestation period of at least 20 completed weeks must notify the gestational parent of the parent's right to receive a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth as described in Section 20.5 of the Vital Records Act. The Department of Public Health shall develop language on a form to be used for notification under this Section and hospitals shall provide the form to the gestational parent. This section of language shall be known as a "Liam's Law notice". The "Liam's Law notice" shall be available in both English and Spanish.
(Source: P.A. 103-948, eff. 7-1-25.)