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Baby Abandonment Project
The list below identifies the 41 states that have passed "safe haven" laws between 1999 and August 2002.
House Bill 115
(Signed by Governor May 11, 2000)
Online Text of Bill: Not available
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 72 hours
- Safe Havens: Emergency medical services providers, hospitals
- Liability: Affirmative defense to prosecution
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House Bill 2001
(Signed by Governor April 23, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 72 hours
- Safe Havens: Firefighter, Emergency medical services technician, Hospital, Outpatient treatment center, Child welfare agency, Licensed adoption agency, Church or House of worship
- Liability: Immune from prosecution for abuse
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House Bill 1070/ Act 236
(Signed by Governor Feb 13, 2001)
Online Text of Bill (Requires PDF)
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 30 days
- Safe Havens: Emergency department of licensed hospital, Law enforcement agency
- Liability: Affirmative defense to prosecution for endangering the welfare of a minor
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Senate Bill 1368
(Signed by Governor September 28, 2000)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 72 hours
- Safe Havens: Hospital emergency room, Other location designated by board of supervisors
- Liability: Immune from prosecution
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Public Act 00-207
(Signed by Governor October 1, 2000)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 30 days
- Safe Havens: Hospital emergency room
- Liability: Immune from prosecution
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House Bill 120
(Signed by Governor July 9, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 14 days
- Safe Havens: Emergency department of a hospital
- Liability: Defense to Prosecution
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House Bill 1901 and Amendment HB475
(Signed by Governor June 2, 2000 and May 23, 2001)
Online Text of Bill (Requires PDF)
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 3 days
- Safe Havens: Hospitals, Fire stations, Emergency medical services stations
- Liability: Immune from prosecution for neglect
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House Bill 360
(Signed May 2002)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: Less than one week
- Safe Havens: Employee, volunteer or staff member of a medical facility
- Liability: Immune from prosecution for the crimes of cruelty of a child or abandonment of a dependent child.
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Senate Bill 1037
(Signed by Governor April 9, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 30 days
- Safe Havens: Hospitals, Physicians' offices and clinics, Medical personnel responding to 911 call, Nurses and physician assistants
- Liability: Immune from prosecution for abandonment
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House Bill 0632, Senate Bill 216, Public Act 92-0408
(Signed by Governor August 20, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 72 hours
- Safe Havens: Hospital, fire station, emergency medical facility
- Liability: Relinquishment does not violate the criminal code or constitute a basis for a finding of abuse, neglect or abandonment
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Senate Bill 330 and Amendment House Bill 1829
(Signed by Governor March 17, 2000 and May 17, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 45 days
- Safe Havens: Emergency medical services provider
- Liability: Affirmative defense to prosecution
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Senate File 355
(Signed by Governor April 24, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 14 days
- Safe Havens: Hospital emergency rooms, Health care facilities
- Liability: Immune from prosecution for abandonment or neglect
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House Bill 2838
(Signed by Governor 2000)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 45 days
- Safe Havens: Fire station, City or county health department, Medical care facility
- Liability: Immune from prosecution for abandonment
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KRS Chapter 311
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 72 hours
- Safe Havens: Emergency medical services provider, Police Station, Fire Station
- Liability: Relinquishing parent not considered to have abandoned or endangered the child
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House Bill 223
(Signed by Governor April 17, 2000)
Online Text of Bill (Requires PDF)
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 30 days
- Safe Havens: Hospitals, Public health units, Fire stations, Police stations, Pregnancy crisis facility
- Liability: Affirmative defense to prosecution for abandonment, molestation, or cruelty
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LD 1670
(Signed March 22, 2002)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 31 days
- Safe Havens: Emergency Room of a Hospital, Hospital Staff Member, Firefighter, Police Officer, Medical Services Provider
- Liability: - Affirmative defense to the crime of abandonment
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Senate Bill 82
(Adopted March 22, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: Less than 3 days old
- Safe Havens: Hospital personnel
- Liability: - Relinquishment not seen as a criminal act if child is unharmed
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Senate Bill 1053
(Signed by Governor June 26, 2000)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 72 hours
- Safe Havens: Fire departments, Hospitals, Police stations
- Liability: Affirmative defense to prosecution for injury or abandonment
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Senate File 2615
(Signed by Governor April 2000)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 72 hours
- Safe Havens: Hospitals
- Liability: Immune from prosecution
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House Bill 169
(Signed by Governor March 23, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 72 hours
- Safe Havens: Hospitals, Adoption agencies
- Liability: Affirmative defense to prosecution
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House Bill 1443
(Approved by Governor July 2, 2002; Effective August 28, 2002)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: Less than 30 days old
- Safe Havens: On duty hospital staff, firefighters, emergency medical technician, and law enforcement
- Liability: : Immune from prosecution on child abandonment and endangering welfare of child who is less than 5 days old; affirmative defense for child abandonment and endangerment of welfare to child who is between 6-30 days old
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Senate Bill 0132
(Signed by Governor April 19, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 30 days
- Safe Havens: Fire departments, Hospitals, Law enforcement agencies
- Liability: Immune from prosecution for abandonment
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Senate Bill 191
(Signed by Governor May 31, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 30 days
- Safe Havens: Hospital, obstetric center or independent center for emergency medical care, fire-fighting agency, law enforcement agency
- Liability: Not in violation of the law simply by virtue of delivering a child to a safe haven
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Chapter 58
(Signed by Governor July 7, 2000)
Online Text of Bill (Requires PDF)
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 30 days
- Safe Havens: State, county or municipal police stations, Hospital emergency rooms
- Liability: Affirmative defense to prosecution for abandonment
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Senate Bill 94
(Signed by Governor March 14, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 90 days
- Safe Havens: Hospitals, Health care clinics
- Liability: Immune from prosecution for abandonment or abuse
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SO06688
(Signed by Governor June 18, 2000)
Online Text of Bill: Not available
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 5 days
- Safe Havens: Appropriate person or suitable location
- Liability: Affirmative defense to prosecution for abandonment or desertion
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House Bill 275 / Session Law 2001-291
(Signed by Governor July 19, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 7 days
- Safe Havens: Health care provider, law enforcement officer, social services worker, certified emergency medical service worker, any adult
- Liability: Immune from prosecution
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House Bill 660
(Signed by Governor January 5, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 72 hours
- Safe Havens: Emergency medical service workers, Peace officers, Hospitals
- Liability: Immune from prosecution
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House Bill 1122
(Signed by Governor April 30, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 7 days
- Safe Havens: Medical services providers, Police stations, Fire stations, Child protective services agencies, Hospitals, Medical facilities
- Liability: Immune from prosecution for abandonment or neglect
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Senate Bill 199
(Signed by Governor June, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 30 days
- Safe Havens: Hospitals, Birthing Centers, Physicians' offices, Sheriffs' offices, Police stations
- Liability: Affirmative defense to prosecution for abandonment
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Senate Bill 94
(Signed by Governor July 9, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 30 days
- Safe Havens: Hospital, medical emergency facility, fire station, police station
- Liability: Immune from prosecution for abandonment
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House Bill 4743
(Signed by Governor June 6, 2000)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 30 days
- Safe Havens: Hospitals, Hospital outpatient facilities
- Liability: Immune from criminal prosecution
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Senate Bill 92
(Signed by Governor March 3, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 60 days
- Safe Havens: Health care facilities or clinics, Law enforcement officers, Emergency medical technicians, Firefighters
- Liability: Immune from prosecution
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Senate Bill 774 / Public Act 388
(Signed by Governor July 19, 2001)
Online Text of Bill (Requires PDF)
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 72 hours
- Safe Havens: Hospitals, Birthing centers, Community health clinics, Out-patient "walk-in" clinics
- Liability: Immune from criminal prosecution
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House Bill 3423, Senate Bill 783
(Signed by Governor June 6, 1999; amended March 21, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 60 days
- Safe Havens: Emergency medical services provider, Licensed child-placing agency, Licensed residential child-care provider
- Liability: Affirmative defense to prosecution
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House Bill 12 Substitute
(Signed by Governor March 15, 2001)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 72 hours
- Safe Havens: Hospitals with emergency rooms
- Liability: Immune from prosecution for neglect or abandonment
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SB 5236
(April 3, 2002)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 72 hours
- Safe Havens: Emergency department of a licensed hospital during hours of operation, or Fire station during hours of operation and while fire personnel are present
- Liability: Relinquishing parent is not subject to criminal liability under parts of law in question.
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House Bill 4300
(Signed by Governor March 11, 2000)
Online Text of Bill
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 30 days
- Safe Havens: Hospitals, Health care facilities
- Liability: Affirmative defense to certain prosecutions
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Assembly Bill 54
(Signed by Governor April 6, 2001)
Online Text of Bill (Requires PDF)
-- CWLA Summary
Key Points:
- Age: 72 hours
- Safe Havens: Law enforcement officers, Emergency medical technicians, Hospitals, 911 responders
- Liability: Immune from civil or criminal prosecution
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