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90_HB3435enr

      210 ILCS 85/6.18
          Amends the Hospital Licensing Act.  Provides that as part
      of the discharging process, a hospital may  provide  material
      prepared  by  the Department of Public Health instructing the
      mother  on  how  to  perform  cardiopulmonary  resuscitation,
      rather than the Heimlich Maneuver, on an  infant.   Effective
      immediately.
                                                     LRB9008921JSgc
HB3435 Enrolled                                LRB9008921JSgc
 1        AN  ACT  to  amend the Hospital Licensing Act by amending
 2    Section 6.18.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.  The  Hospital  Licensing  Act  is amended by
 6    changing Section 6.18 as follows:
 7        (210 ILCS 85/6.18)
 8        Sec. 6.18.  Instruction on cardiopulmonary  resuscitation
 9    (CPR)  Heimlich  maneuver to mothers of newborns.  As part of
10    the process of discharging a newborn infant, a  hospital  may
11    provide  the  infant's  mother  with  material  prepared  and
12    provided  by  the Department instructing the mother on how to
13    properly  perform  cardiopulmonary  resuscitation  (CPR)   in
14    accordance  with  American  Heart  Association guidelines the
15    Heimlich maneuver on the infant.  The hospital  shall  answer
16    the mother's questions regarding CPR the maneuver.
17    (Source: P.A. 90-243, eff. 7-28-97.)
18        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
19    becoming law.

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