1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to health; providing for education of
1.3 	parents, primary caregivers, and child care providers
1.4 	on the dangers associated with shaking infants and
1.5 	young children; proposing coding for new law in
1.6 	Minnesota Statutes, chapters 144; 245A.
1.7 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.8 	Section 1. [144.574] EDUCATION ABOUT THE DANGERS OF
1.9 	SHAKING INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN.
1.10 		Subdivision 1.Education by hospitals. (a) A hospital
1.11 	licensed under sections 144.50 to 144.56 shall make available
1.12 	for viewing by the parents of each newborn baby delivered in the
1.13 	hospital a video presentation on the dangers associated with
1.14 	shaking infants and young children.
1.15 	(b) A hospital shall use a video obtained from the
1.16 	commissioner or approved by the commissioner.  The commissioner
1.17 	shall provide to a hospital at cost copies of an approved
1.18 	video.  The commissioner shall review other video presentations
1.19 	for possible approval upon the request of a hospital.
1.20 		Subd. 2.Education by health care providers. The
1.21 	commissioner shall establish a protocol for health care
1.22 	providers to educate parents and primary caregivers about the
1.23 	dangers associated with shaking infants and young children.  The
1.24 	commissioner shall request family practice physicians,
1.25 	pediatricians, and other pediatric health care providers to
1.26 	review these dangers with the parents and primary caregivers of
2.1 	infants and young children up to the age of three at each
2.2 	well-baby visit.

2.3 	Sec. 2. [245A.034] CHILD CARE PROVIDER TRAINING; DANGERS
2.4 	OF SHAKING INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN.
2.5 	The commissioner shall make available for viewing by all
2.6 	licensed and legal nonlicensed child care providers a video
2.7 	presentation on the dangers associated with shaking infants and
2.8 	young children.  The video presentation shall be part of the
2.9 	initial and ongoing training of licensed and legal nonlicensed
2.10 	child care providers.  The commissioner shall provide to child
2.11 	care providers at cost copies of a video approved by the
2.12 	commissioner of health under section 144.574 on the dangers
2.13 	associated with shaking infants and young children.