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| 1 | AN ACT concerning health.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | ||||||
| 5 | Hospital Infant Feeding Act. | ||||||
| 6 | Section 5. Definitions. In this Act: | ||||||
| 7 | "Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative" means the voluntary | ||||||
| 8 | program sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) and | ||||||
| 9 | the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) that recognizes | ||||||
| 10 | hospitals that meet certain evaluation criteria regarding the | ||||||
| 11 | promotion of breastfeeding. | ||||||
| 12 | "Department" means the Department of Public Health. | ||||||
| 13 | "Hospital" has the meaning ascribed to that term in the | ||||||
| 14 | Hospital Licensing Act. | ||||||
| 15 | "Infant nutrition resource" means breastfeeding education | ||||||
| 16 | and infant formula safety and preparation. | ||||||
| 17 | Section 10. Infant feeding policy required. | ||||||
| 18 | (a) Every hospital that provides birthing services must | ||||||
| 19 | adopt an infant feeding policy that promotes breastfeeding. In | ||||||
| 20 | developing the policy, a hospital shall consider guidance | ||||||
| 21 | provided by the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative. | ||||||
| 22 | (b) An infant feeding policy adopted under this Section | ||||||
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| 1 | shall include guidance on the use of formula (i) for medically | ||||||
| 2 | necessary supplementation, (ii) if preferred by the mother, or | ||||||
| 3 | (iii) when exclusive breastfeeding is contraindicated for the | ||||||
| 4 | mother or for the infant. | ||||||
| 5 | Section 15. Communication of policy. A hospital shall | ||||||
| 6 | routinely communicate the infant feeding policy to staff in the | ||||||
| 7 | hospital's obstetric and neonatal areas, beginning with | ||||||
| 8 | hospital staff orientation. The hospital shall also ensure that | ||||||
| 9 | the policy and infant nutrition resources are posted (i) in a | ||||||
| 10 | conspicuous place in the hospital's obstetric or neonatal area | ||||||
| 11 | or (ii) on the hospital's Internet or Intranet web site or on | ||||||
| 12 | the Internet or Intranet web site of the health system of which | ||||||
| 13 | the hospital is a part. The hospital shall make copies of the | ||||||
| 14 | policy available to the Department upon request. | ||||||
| 15 | Section 20. Application of policy. A hospital's infant | ||||||
| 16 | feeding policy adopted under this Act must apply to all | ||||||
| 17 | mother-infant couplets in the hospital's obstetric and | ||||||
| 18 | neonatal areas.
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| 19 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | ||||||
| 20 | 1, 2013.
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