Requires hospitals, prior to discharge, to provide parents of newborns educational information on Pertussis disease and the availability of a vaccine. (8/15/11)
Requests the Department of Health and Hospitals to seek a Medicaid state plan amendment from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to include as a Medicaid service the Tdap vaccine to pregnant women and to provide a cost analysis to the legislature for providing this Medicaid service.