WA People
BILL · 2001–02 SESSION

HB 1170: Newborn infant safety

Ensuring the health and safety of newborn infants who have been abandoned and exempting from criminal liability persons who abandon them into the custody of a qualified person.

Summary

  • $ Eliminates criminal liability for a parent who abandons an infant, 72 hours old or younger, in a hospital to a designated person.
  • $ Creates a 15 member task force to recommend methods of implementation, ways to promote adoption, and ways of providing access to the abandoning parents = medical history.
  • $ Appropriates $200,000 for the biennium to the department of social and health services.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 19, 2001
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Al O'Brien (D-1)
Introduced
January 19, 2001 in the House
Last action
January 14, 2002
Companion bill
SB 5236
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to the safety of newborn children;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Al O'Brien (D-1)

35 co-sponsors (27 Democrats, 8 Republicans)

Tom Campbell R-2Mary Lou Dickerson D-36Kip Tokuda D-37Lynn Kessler D-24Mary Skinner R-14Ed Murray D-43Lynn Schindler R-4Eileen Cody D-34Jim Dunn R-17Kelly Barlean R-10Patricia Lantz D-26Jeannie Darneille D-27Carolyn Edmonds D-32Phil Rockefeller D-23Dave Quall D-40Karen Keiser D-33Jeanne Edwards D-1Velma Veloria D-11Ruth Kagi D-32Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney D-46Hans Dunshee D-44John Lovick D-44Mark Miloscia D-30Mark Doumit D-19Val Ogden D-49Steve Conway D-29Beverly Woods R-23Steve Van Luven R-48Kathy Haigh D-35Geoff Simpson D-47Brock Jackley D-26Christopher Hurst D-31Joyce Mulliken R-13Shay Schual-Berke D-33Sharon Tomiko Santos D-37

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. First reading, referred to Children & Family Services.

HB 1170 in other sessions

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