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90_SB0404eng

      20 ILCS 2310/55.84 new
          Amends the Civil Administrative Code with respect to  the
      powers  and  duties  of  the  Department  of  Public  Health.
      Requires  the  Department  to conduct an information campaign
      for the general public to promote breast feeding  of  infants
      by their mothers.
                                                     LRB9002084DJcd
SB404 Engrossed                                LRB9002084DJcd
 1        AN ACT to amend the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois
 2    by adding Section 55.84.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.  The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
 6    amended by adding Section 55.84 as follows:
 7        (20 ILCS 2310/55.84 new)
 8        Sec. 55.84.  Breast feeding; public information campaign.
 9    The Department of Public Health may  conduct  an  information
10    campaign  for the general public to promote breast feeding of
11    infants by their mothers.  The  Department  may  include  the
12    information  in a brochure prepared under Section 55.64 or in
13    a brochure that shares other  information  with  the  general
14    public  and is distributed free of charge.  If the Department
15    includes the information required under  this  Section  in  a
16    brochure  authorized  or  required under another provision of
17    law, the Department may continue to use  existing  stocks  of
18    that  brochure  before  adding the information required under
19    this Section but shall  add  that  information  in  the  next
20    printing  of  the  brochure.   The information required under
21    this Section may be  distributed  to  the  parents  or  legal
22    custodians  of each newborn upon discharge of the infant from
23    a hospital or other health care facility.

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