Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman SHANIQUE SPEIGHT
District 29 (Essex and Hudson)
SYNOPSIS
Requires all hospitals with maternity departments to maintain Baby-Friendly and Mother-Friendly designations.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning hospitals and supplementing P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Commencing two years after the effective date of this act, every hospital that provides inpatient maternity services shall, as a condition of continuing to provide inpatient maternity services, maintain both a Baby-Friendly Hospital designation issued by Baby-Friendly USA and a Mother-Friendly Hospital designation issued by the Improving Birth Coalition.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires that, commencing two years after the effective date of the bill, every hospital that provides inpatient maternity services maintain both a Baby-Friendly Hospital designation issued by Baby-Friendly USA and a Mother-Friendly Hospital designation issued by the Improving Birth Coalition as a condition of continuing to provide inpatient maternity services.