SF 2282 Minnesota Senate · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Safe Place for Newborns provisions modification

This bill modifies Minnesota's Safe Place for Newborns law to clarify and strengthen provisions for safely relinquishing newborns. It specifies that "safe places" include hospitals, 24-hour fire stations, healthcare providers, and approved newborn safety devices (which must have dual alarms, be FDA-approved, and be located inside 24-hour facilities). The bill requires safe places to accept newborns without asking for the parent's identity or calling police, while ensuring devices include social service information for parents. It also reinforces legal immunity for safe places and medical personnel who follow these procedures in good faith. These changes directly affect hospitals, fire stations, and healthcare providers operating under the Safe Place program.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
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Mar 2025
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Introduced Mar 6, 2025 Last action Mar 6, 2025
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Referred to Health and Human Services
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Mar 6, 2025
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Eric Lucero
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