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HB 527 Original 2018 Regular Session
Abstract: Revises provisions within the Children's Code Safe Haven Law.
Present law designates as an emergency care facility any hospital licensed in the state of Louisiana,
any public health unit, any emergency medical service provider, any medical clinic, any fire station,
any police station, any crisis pregnancy center, or any child advocacy center.
Proposed law designates as an emergency care facility the following:
(1) any hospital licensed in the state of Louisiana.
(2) any of the following medical clinics during normal and customary hours of operation:
local or parish public health units, licensed rural health clinics, licensed ambulatory surgical
centers, and Federally Qualified Health Centers, offices, clinics, or other types of treatment
facilities, private physicians or dentist not listed above are not designated emergency care
facilities within the meaning of this Subparagraph.
(3) any manned fire station.
(4) any manned law enforcement station.
(5) any Child Advocacy Center accredited by the National Children's Alliance, during
normal and customary hours of operation.
Proposed law defines "emergency medical service provider" as a licensed emergency medical service
provider, when dispatched as a result of a "911" call from a parent who wishes to relinquish his
infant.
Proposed law adds firemen to list of 911 persons who may be dispatched in the event a parent wants
to relinquish his rights but does not have transportation.
Present law list responsibilities of designated emergency care facilities.
Proposed law adds emergency medical service provider, fire station, or law enforcement station to
the list containing designated emergency facilities responsible under present law, the Safe Haven
Law. (Amends Ch. C. Arts. 1150(2)-(4), 1151(A), and 1152(A), (B), (D), (E), (F)(intro. para.), and (G)-(I);
Adds Ch. C. Art. 1150(5))