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LD1460 • 2025

An Act to Require Parents to Be Informed of Hospitals' Safe Sleep Rules

An Act to Require Parents to Be Informed of Hospitals' Safe Sleep Rules

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Sponsor
Representative John Eder
Last action
2025-06-09
Official status
Reports READ. On motion by Senator INGWERSEN of York The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence. Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
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An Act to Require Parents to Be Informed of Hospitals' Safe Sleep Rules

An Act to Require Parents to Be Informed of Hospitals' Safe Sleep Rules Sponsor: Representative John Eder Reference committee: Health and Human Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Require Parents to Be Informed of Hospitals' Safe Sleep Rules Sponsor: Representative John Eder Reference committee: Health and Human Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

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Amendments

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Filed

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR2366(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR2366(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 1460 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • H- ) 3HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 4 Reproduced and distributed under the direction of the Clerk of the House.
  • 5STATE OF MAINE 6HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 7132ND LEGISLATURE 8FIRST SPECIAL SESSION 9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT “ ” to H.P.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-09 Senate

    Reports READ. On motion by Senator INGWERSEN of York The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence. Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  2. 2025-06-05 House

    Reports READ . On motion of Representative MEYER of Eliot, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  3. 2025-06-04 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

  4. 2025-04-25 Committee

    Work Session Held

  5. 2025-04-25 Committee

    Voted; Divided Report

  6. 2025-04-08 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Require Parents to Be Informed of Hospitals' Safe Sleep Rules
Sponsor:
Representative John Eder
Reference committee:
Health and Human Services
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1460
H.P. 952 House of Representatives, April 3, 2025
An Act to Require Parents to Be Informed of Hospitals' Safe Sleep
Rules
Reference to the Committee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative EDER of Waterboro.
Cosponsored by Representatives: GRIFFIN of Levant, JAVNER of Chester, TUELL of East
Machias.

Page 1 - 132LR2366(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §1711-H is enacted to read:
3§1711-H. Hospital safe sleep rule for children; parental behavior
4 A hospital licensed pursuant to chapter 405 that has a safe sleep rule for children shall
5 inform the parent of a child who is an inpatient at the hospital of the safe sleep rule for
6 children, and the parent shall sign a form provided by the hospital that contains the text of
7 the safe sleep rule for children acknowledging that the parent knows the safe sleep rule for
8 children and possible penalties for violation of the safe sleep rule for children. For purposes
9 of this section, "safe sleep rule for children" means a set of evidence-based practices a
10 hospital requires to be employed in order to reduce the rate of children's unsafe sleep
11 injuries and sudden unexpected infant death related to unsafe sleep, including accidental
12 suffocation and strangulation in bed and sudden infant death syndrome.
13SUMMARY
14 This bill requires a hospital that has a safe sleep rule for children to inform the parent
15 of a child who is an inpatient at the hospital of the rule and the parent to sign a form
16 acknowledging that the parent knows the rule and possible penalties for violation of the
17 rule.
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