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90_SB0404eng
20 ILCS 2310/55.84 new
Amends the Civil Administrative Code with respect to the
powers and duties of the Department of Public Health.
Requires the Department to conduct an information campaign
for the general public to promote breast feeding of infants
by their mothers.
LRB9002084DJcd
SB404 Engrossed LRB9002084DJcd
1 AN ACT to amend the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois
2 by adding Section 55.84.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
6 amended by adding Section 55.84 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 2310/55.84 new)
8 Sec. 55.84. Breast feeding; public information campaign.
9 The Department of Public Health may conduct an information
10 campaign for the general public to promote breast feeding of
11 infants by their mothers. The Department may include the
12 information in a brochure prepared under Section 55.64 or in
13 a brochure that shares other information with the general
14 public and is distributed free of charge. If the Department
15 includes the information required under this Section in a
16 brochure authorized or required under another provision of
17 law, the Department may continue to use existing stocks of
18 that brochure before adding the information required under
19 this Section but shall add that information in the next
20 printing of the brochure. The information required under
21 this Section may be distributed to the parents or legal
22 custodians of each newborn upon discharge of the infant from
23 a hospital or other health care facility.