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2016 Delaware Code
Title 31 - Welfare
CHAPTER 3. CHILD WELFARE
Subchapter II Child Death Review Commission
§ 320. Declaration of legislative intent.

Universal Citation:
31 DE Code § 320 (2016)
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The General Assembly hereby declares that the health and safety of the children and pregnant women of the State will be safeguarded if deaths of children under the age of 18 and stillbirths occurring after at least 20 weeks of gestation and maternal death are reviewed, in order to provide recommendations to alleviate those practices or conditions which impact the mortality of children and pregnant women. This subchapter establishes the Child Death Review Commission. For the purposes of this subchapter, "Commission" means the Child Death Review Commission. Stillbirths occurring after at least 20 weeks of gestation shall not include stillbirths which occur as a result of an elective medical procedure.

70 Del. Laws, c. 256, § 1; 73 Del. Laws, c. 331, §§ 2, 3; 74 Del. Laws, c. 376, § 3; 75 Del. Laws, c. 269, § 1; 76 Del. Laws, c. 373, § 2; 80 Del. Laws, c. 187, § 17.;

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