MI SB1023

Health care professionals providing prenatal services must inform pregnant patients between the twentieth and twenty-eighth weeks of gestation about the potential risk of stillbirth as part of standard care.

Exempts health care professionals providing nonprenatal, emergency, or non-primary health care services from this requirement.

"Healthy Birth Day" or "First Candle" may develop written information about stillbirth risks that includes preventive measures such as awareness of decreased fetal movements and fetal kick counting.

Written information must be in easily understood, nontechnical terms and may be provided in English, Spanish, and other languages; organizations may provide copies free of charge to medical boards, health professionals, and local health departments.

The bill takes effect July 1, 2012, and is referred to as "Skylar's Law"; "stillbirth" is defined as intrauterine fetal death.