2019 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 24 - Health and Safety
Article 1 - Public Health
Section 24-1-13.2 - Shaken baby syndrome prevention.
The department of health shall adopt rules, no later than December 31, 2017, requiring every hospital and freestanding birthing center to provide training and education to prevent shaken baby syndrome to every parent of every newborn before discharge of the newborn from the health facility. The rules shall require the health facility to maintain records to demonstrate compliance with this requirement and to report such information as the department deems appropriate regarding the training and education provided by such health facility. The department, in collaboration with the university of New Mexico health sciences center's department of pediatrics, shall approve training and instructional materials in both English and Spanish and shall include the use of shaken baby simulation dolls in the required curriculum.
History: Laws 2017, ch. 119, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2017, ch. 119 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 16, 2017, 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature.
