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HB0002 Engrossed LRB101 03317 RPS 48325 b AN ACT concerning health.
HB0002 Enrolled LRB101 03317 RPS 48325 b AN ACT concerning health.
(2) The right to receive care for her and her infant that is consistent with current scientific evidence about benefits and risks.
(2) The right to receive care for her and her infant that is consistent with generally accepted medical standards.
(3) The right to choose a midwife or a physician as her maternity care provider.
(3) The right to choose a certified nurse midwife or physician as her maternity care professional.
(4) The right to choose her birth setting from the full range of safe options available in her community on the basis of complete, objective information about the benefits, risks, and costs of those options.
(4) The right to choose her birth setting from the full range of birthing options available in her community.
(5) The right to leave her maternity caregiver and select another if she becomes dissatisfied with her care.
(5) The right to leave her maternity care professional and select another if she becomes dissatisfied with her care, except as otherwise provided by law.
HB0002 Engrossed - 2 - LRB101 03317 RPS 48325 b (6) The right to receive information about the professional identity and qualifications of those involved with her care and to know when those involved are trainees.
(6) The right to receive information about the names of HB0002 Enrolled - 2 - LRB101 03317 RPS 48325 b those health care professionals involved in her care.
(7) The right to communicate with caregivers and receive all care in privacy, which may involve excluding nonessential personnel, and to have all personal information treated according to standards of confidentiality.
(7) The right to privacy and confidentiality of records, except as provided by law.
(8) The right to receive maternity care that identifies and addresses social and behavioral factors that affect her health and that of her baby.
(8) The right to receive information concerning her condition and proposed treatment, including methods of relieving pain.
(9) The right to full and clear information about benefits, risks, and costs of the procedures, drugs, tests, and treatments offered to her and of all other reasonable options, including no intervention.
(9) The right to accept or refuse any treatment, to the extent medically possible.
(10) The right to accept or refuse procedures, drugs, tests, and treatments, to have her choices honored, and to change her decision about accepting or refusing those procedures, drugs, tests, or treatment.
(10) The right to be informed if her caregivers wish to enroll her or her infant in a research study in accordance with Section 3.1 of this Act.
(11) The right to be informed if her caregivers wish to enroll her or her infant in a research study, to receive full information about all known and possible benefits and risks of participation, and to decide whether to participate, free from coercion and without negative consequences.
(11) The right to access her medical records in accordance with Section 8-2001 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(12) The right to unrestricted access to all available HB0002 Engrossed - 3 - LRB101 03317 RPS 48325 b records about her pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum care, and infant;
(12) The right to receive information in a language in which she can communicate in accordance with federal law.
to obtain a full copy of these records;
(13) The right to receive emotional and physical support during labor and birth.
and to receive help in understanding them, if necessary.
(14) The right to freedom of movement during labor and to give birth in the position of her choice, within generally accepted medical standards.
(13) The right to receive maternity care that is appropriate to her cultural and religious background and to receive information in a language in which she can communicate.
(15) The right to contact with her newborn, except where necessary care must be provided to the mother or infant.
(14) The right to have family members and friends of her choice present during all aspects of her maternity care.
(16) The right to receive information about breastfeeding.
(15) The right to receive continuous social, emotional, and physical support during labor and birth from a caregiver who has been trained in labor support.
HB0002 Enrolled - 3 - LRB101 03317 RPS 48325 b (17) The right to decide collaboratively with caregivers when she and her baby will leave the birth site for home, based on their conditions and circumstances.
(16) the right to receive full advance information about risks and benefits of all reasonably available methods for relieving pain during labor and birth, including methods that do not require the use of drugs;
(18) The right to be treated with respect at all times before, during, and after pregnancy by her health care professionals.
to choose which methods will be used;
(19) The right of each patient, regardless of source of payment, to examine and receive a reasonable explanation of her total bill for services rendered by her maternity care professional or health care provider, including itemized charges for specific services received.
and to change her decision about using those methods at any time.
Each maternity care professional or health care provider shall be responsible only for a reasonable explanation of those specific services provided by the maternity care professional or health care provider.
(17) The right to freedom of movement during labor, unencumbered by tubes, wires, or other apparatuses and to give birth in the position of her choice.
(18) The right to virtually uninterrupted contact with her newborn from the moment of birth if she and her baby are healthy and do not need care that requires separation.
(19) The right to receive complete information about HB0002 Engrossed - 4 - LRB101 03317 RPS 48325 b the benefits of breastfeeding well in advance of labor, to refuse supplemental bottles and other actions that interfere with breastfeeding, and to have access to skilled lactation support for as long as she chooses to breastfeed.
(20) The right to decide collaboratively with caregivers when she and her baby will leave the birth site for home, based on their conditions and circumstances.
(21) The right to be treated with respect at all times before, during, and after pregnancy by her health care professionals and to have a health care professional that is culturally competent and treats her appropriately regardless of her ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religious background.
(d) Nothing in this Section or any rules adopted under HB0002 Enrolled - 4 - LRB101 03317 RPS 48325 b subsection (c) shall be construed to require a physician, health care professional, hospital, hospital affiliate, or health care provider to provide care inconsistent with generally accepted medical standards or available capabilities or resources.
This Act takes effect upon becoming law.
This Act takes effect January 1, 2020.
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