Causing harm to a child by cosleeping while intoxicated, providing information about safe sleep, and providing a penalty. (FE)

The bill requires a physician, a nurse-midwife, or another trained, designated health care provider to provide to a pregnant woman, free of charge and during a prenatal health care appointment in her third trimester of pregnancy, a copy of the board's printed materials, and to inform the woman of, and make available to her to view, the board's audiovisual materials. Under the bill, if after a child is born, the mother's medical records do not indicate she received the materials at a prenatal appointment, a physician, a nurse-midwife, a birth attendant, or another trained, designated health care provider must provide to each parent of the infant who is present, before the mother is discharged from the hospital or maternity home, a copy of the printed materials and inform them of the board's audiovisual materials. At the same time the materials are provided to the mother or parents, the person who provided the materials must provide the parent with a form, prepared by the board, that includes a statement that the parent has been advised of the risks of cosleeping with an infant while that parent is intoxicated and a statement that the parent will share that information with all persons who provide care for the infant. Under the bill, a hospital, maternity home, physician, nurse-midwife, other staff member of the hospital or maternity home, or birth attendant is immune from liability for any damages resulting from any good faith act or omission in providing the board's materials and form.

The bill also requires certain individuals and entities to provide the board's materials to specified individuals. The bill requires each school board to provide or arrange with a nonprofit organization or health care provider to provide age-appropriate instruction relating to safe sleep, including dangers of cosleeping while intoxicated, for pupils in one of grades 10 to 12. A county department or Indian tribe that provides home visitation services and providers of prenatal, postpartum, and young child care coordination services must provide to recipients of those services a copy of the board's printed materials and give an oral explanation of those materials. Under the bill, a county department, a nonprofit organization, a school board, a health care provider, an Indian tribe, or a provider of prenatal, postpartum, and young child care coordination is immune from liability for any damages resulting from any good faith act or omission in connection with providing the training or materials.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime, the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a report concerning the proposed penalty and the costs or savings that are likely to result if the bill is enacted.