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Regular Session, 2011
SENATE BILL NO. 156
BY SENATOR BROOME
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
HOSPITALS. Requires hospitals, prior to discharge, to provide parents of newborns
educational information on Pertussis disease and the availability of a vaccine. (8/15/11)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 40:2022, relative to health care information; to require hospitals to provide2
certain health care information to certain patients; to provide for the development3
and dissemination of the health care information by the Department of Health and4
Hospitals; and to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 40:2022 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 7
ยง2022. Health care information; pertussis8
A. The legislature hereby finds that it is in the best interest of the9
children born in this state that certain health care information be provided to10
parents of newborns concerning the Pertussis disease. Pertussis (whooping11
cough) is a very contagious disease caused by a type of bacteria called12
Bordetella pertussis and is one of the most commonly occurring13
vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States.14
B. On and after January 1, 2012, every licensed hospital in the state of15
Louisiana shall, prior to discharge, provide parents of newborns educational16
information provided by the Department of Health and Hospitals on the17 SB NO. 156
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Pertussis disease and the availability of a vaccine to protect against contracting1
the disease. Such information shall include, but not be limited to, information2
on the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that3
parents receive the appropriate vaccination during the postpartum period to4
help protect their newborns from the transmission of Pertussis.5
C. The Department of Health and Hospitals shall, by January 1, 2012,6
develop and disseminate to every hospital in the state information consistent7
with the provisions of this Section.8
D. Nothing in this Section shall require any hospital or the office of9
public health within the Department of Health and Hospital to provide or pay10
for any vaccination against Pertussis.11
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Greg Waddell.
DIGEST
Proposed law provides that on and after January 1, 2012, every licensed hospital in the state
of Louisiana shall, prior to discharge, provide parents of newborns educational information
provided by DHH on the Pertussis disease and the availability of a vaccine to protect against
contracting the disease. Such information shall include, but not be limited to, information
on the CDC's recommendation that parents receive the appropriate vaccination during the
postpartum period to help protect their newborns from the transmission of Pertussis.
Proposed law requires DHH to develop and disseminate to every hospital in the state
information consistent with the provisions of proposed law.
Effective August 15, 2011.
(Adds R.S. 40:2022)