HR 4680
105th Congress
House
Health
Administrative procedure
Child safety
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Health and Human Services
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Fingerprints
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Hospital patients
Hospital records
Hospitals
Identification devices
Infants
Kidnapping
Law
Medicaid
Medicare
Missing children
Infant Protection and Baby Switching Prevention Act of 1998
Introduced: October 2, 1998
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7 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 9, 1998
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Oct 5, 1998
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Oct 2, 1998
Referred to House Judiciary
Oct 2, 1998
Referred to House Commerce
Oct 2, 1998
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Commerce, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Oct 2, 1998
Referred to House Ways and Means
Oct 2, 1998
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Infant Protection and Baby Switching Prevention Act of 1998 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require certain hospitals reimbursed under Medicare to have in effect security procedures to reduce the likelihood of infant patient abduction and baby switching, including procedures for identifying all infant patients in the hospital in a manner that ensures that it will be evident if infants are missing. Provides penalties for hospitals failing to have such security procedures in effect.
Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit and provide penalties for baby switching in hospitals.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Cosponsors
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