Infant Protection and Baby Switching Prevention Act of 2023
Latest action · Dec 17, 2024 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
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- IntroducedJan 11, 2023
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Infant Protection and Baby Switching Prevention Act of 2023
This bill establishes additional requirements that certain hospitals must meet in order to participate in Medicare. Specifically, as a condition of Medicare participation, hospitals and critical access hospitals that provide neonatal or infant care must have appropriate security procedures to reduce the likelihood of infant patient abduction and baby switching. Noncompliant hospitals are subject to specified civil penalties.
The bill also establishes criminal penalties for knowingly altering or destroying a newborn's hospital patient records for the purpose of causing the newborn to be misidentified.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 17, 2024Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jan 20, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jan 11, 2023Introduced in House
- Jan 11, 2023Referred 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.
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- Jan 11, 2023Introduced in House
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