Infant Protection and Baby Switching Prevention Act of 2007
Latest action · Feb 2, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 5, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Infant Protection and Baby Switching Prevention Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require certain hospitals reimbursed under Medicare, which also provide neonatal and infant care, to have in effect security procedures to reduce the likelihood of infant patient abduction and baby switching, including procedures for identifying all infant patients in the hospital in a manner that ensures that it will be evident if infants are missing. Establishes civil penalties for failure to have such security procedures in effect.
Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit and establish criminal penalties for baby switching in hospitals.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 2, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
- Feb 2, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jan 18, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jan 5, 2007Introduced in House
- Jan 5, 2007Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative procedure
- Child safety
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Families
- Fines (Penalties)
- Fingerprints
- Fraud
- Government Operations and Politics
- Health
- Hospitals
- Identification devices
- Infants
- Kidnapping
- Law
- Medicaid
- Medical records
- Medicare
- Missing children
- Photography
- Security measures
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)
- Social Welfare
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 5, 2007Introduced in House
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