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2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 1310

AN ACT AUTHORIZING HOSPITALS TO INSTALL DEVICES ON AN EXTERIOR WALL OF AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT TO FACILITATE THE VOLUNTARY SURRENDER OF INFANTS TO EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT STAFF.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Committee on Children Committee on February 14, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To prevent infant abandonment and provide a safe and legal option for parents in crisis to voluntarily surrender an infant to emergency department staff.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

3 co-sponsors

Heather S. Somers, Henri Martin, Paul Cicarella

In the House of Representatives

    9 co-sponsors

    Mark W. Anderson, Craig C. Fishbein, Tony J. Scott, Brian Lanoue, Mark DeCaprio, Anthony L. Nolan, Trenee McGee, Steve Weir, Ben McGorty

    Its course

    February 13 to February 14, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action2 actions on 2 days

    In the SenateFeb 13 to Feb 14 · stopped1 day

    Committee on ChildrenFeb 13 to Feb 14 · stopped1 day

    Text

    Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

    In the Senate Feb 13 – Feb 14

    1. Feb 13Introduced and sent to Committee on Children
    2. Feb 14Heard in Committee on Children
    All 2 actions, as published
    1. Feb 13REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
    2. Feb 14PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses