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Senate Approves Bill 408

The Senate has approved Bill 408. The house has added language that creates a grant program for infant mortality programs. The bill creates a new addition of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome- a name for the condition of addicted newborns- and would require hospitals to report its incidence.

According to the Courier and Press the state will undergo an expansive study of babies born to addicted mothers under the legislation that has passed the Indiana House unanimously. This allows the Indiana State Department of Health to create a pilot program to try ways of identifying and reporting affected newborns.

Senators will now decide whether to approve the House changes or send the bill to a study committee where lawmakers could try to find a compromise between the different versions