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SF 2615 Senate Long Description

E Providing a procedure for leaving unharmed newborns at hospitals with a hospital employee; requiring licensed hospitals to receive unharmed newborn babies left with hospital employees on hospital premises within a certain number of hours of birth and prohibiting the hospital from inquiring about the identity of the mother or the person leaving the newborn or calling the police, authorizing the asking of medical history questions, person leaving the newborn not to be required to answer; authorizing the hospitals to provide the mother or person with information relating to contacting relevant social service agencies; requiring the hospitals to inform the local welfare agency within a certain number of hours of receiving the newborn, requiring the mother or person leaving the newborn to be allowed to leave the hospital before providing the notice; exempting hospitals and employees or medical professionals and persons mandated to report under the maltreatment of minors act from criminal and civil liability for receiving newborn babies and for failure to report; exempting local social service agencies taking custody of children after discharge from the hospital from certain family reunification and relative search or preference requirements in placing the children; providing for the status of newborns left at hospitals as abandoned for child protection and adoption purposes; prohibiting prosecution of persons leaving the newborn babies at hospitals under certain conditions (mk, ja)