An infant mortality bill amended by an Evansville legislator has advanced to the Indiana House floor.
State Representative Gail Riecken says the amendment would create a grant-fund to work on reducing infant mortality in the state. Riecken tells WNIN News that studies show Indiana is near the top of the list in infant deaths.
Riecken says the top two causes of infant mortality in the state are babies being born too early and too small. Of the nearly 300 infants who died in the state in 2011, Riecken says substance abuse was a factor in 43-percent of them.