Bill
HB 6549
AN ACT AUTHORIZING HOSPITALS TO INSTALL DEVICES ON AN EXTERIOR WALL OF AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT TO FACILITATE THE VOLUNTARY SURRENDER OF INFANTS TO EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT STAFF.
2025 Regular Session
Introduced by Tim Ackert and 29 co-sponsors
Connecticut hospitals may install exterior devices enabling anonymous infant surrender, creating physical safe haven infrastructure to prevent abandonment and protect surrendering parents from prosecution.
REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Public Health