SB 1690: Surrendered Infants

GENERAL BILL by McClain

Surrendered Infants; Revising the definition of the term “infant”; defining the term “infant safety device”; authorizing certain hospitals, emergency medical services stations, and fire stations to use infant safety devices to accept surrendered infants if the device meets specified criteria; requiring such hospitals, emergency medical services stations, and fire stations to monitor the inside of the device 24 hours per day and physically check and test the devices at specified intervals, etc.

Current Bill Version Posted: 2/28/2025 10:36 AM

• Senate Committee References (3)

  1. Health Policy (HP)
  2. Judiciary (JU)
  3. Rules (RC)

• Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number Subject Filed By Last Action and Location	Relationship Learn more about bill relationships
  H 791 (c2) by Cobb Surrendered Infants Last Action: 3/27/2025 H Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/3/2025)	Similar

• Analyses (2)

  Links in this section are PDF documents.

  • Health Policy (Pre-Meeting)   3/24/2025
  • Health Policy (Post-Meeting)   3/26/2025

• Committee Votes (1)

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  Date	Version	Committee	Result
  3/25/2025 1:30 PM	S 1690	Health Policy	6 Yeas - 1 Nays

• Citations - Statute (2)

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  63.0423	Procedures with respect to surrendered infants.	Page 6 [pdf]
  383.50	Treatment of surrendered infant.	Page 1 [pdf]

• Bill History

  S = Senate, H = House

  2/28/2025	S	• Filed
  3/7/2025	S	• Referred to Health Policy; Judiciary; Rules
  3/10/2025	S	• Introduced
  3/20/2025	S	• On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/25/25, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
  3/25/2025	S	• Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 6 NAYS 1
  3/26/2025	S	• Now in Judiciary
  3/27/2025	S	• On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 04/01/25, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building