SECTIONS 123360-123365 - California Statutes

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE

SECTION 123360-123365

123360. (a) The State Department of Public Health shall include in
its public service campaign the promotion of mothers breast-feeding
their infants.
(b) The department shall develop a model eight-hour training
course of hospital policies and recommendations that promote
exclusive breast-feeding, incorporating available materials already
developed by the department, and shall specify hospital staff for
whom this model training is appropriate. The department shall also
provide the model training materials to hospitals, upon request.

123361. To the extent that non-United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA) federal funds and private grants or donations are
made available for this purpose, the State Department of Public
Health shall, no later than July 1, 2008, begin expansion of the
breast-feeding peer counseling program at local agency California
Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children
(WIC) sites. Plans for the expansion of the program shall take into
account local WIC agency program models that have demonstrated the
greatest improvement in breast-feeding rates, including exclusive
breast-feeding rates. Program expansion shall be contingent upon the
availability of non-USDA federal funds and private grants or
donations being made available for this purpose. Nothing in this
section shall impact USDA federal funding for the WIC Supplemental
Food Program or the breast-feeding peer counseling program at local
agency WIC sites.

123365. (a) All general acute care hospitals, as defined in
subdivision (a) of Section 1250, and all special hospitals providing
maternity care, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 1250, shall
make available a breast feeding consultant or alternatively, provide
information to the mother on where to receive breast feeding
information.
(b) The consultant may be a registered nurse with maternal and
newborn care experience, if available.
(c) The consultation shall be made available during the
hospitalization associated with the delivery, or alternatively, the
hospital shall provide information to the mother on where to receive
breast feeding information.
(d) The patient may decline this consultation or information.