HB 301 Summary

• Establishes licensure requirements for certified professional midwives (CPMs) through the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts, requiring North American Registry of Midwives certification and specific practical experience including 75 prenatal exams and 50 supervised births.

• Creates an Advisory Committee for Certified Professional Midwives consisting of one public member and four licensed midwives to guide the board in implementing midwifery regulations.

• Requires licensed midwives to practice under written collaboration agreements with physicians holding obstetrical hospital privileges, maintain $500,000 malpractice insurance, and complete 30 hours of continuing education every two years.

• Prohibits licensed midwives from prescribing drugs, performing surgery, medical inductions, cesarean sections, forceps delivery, sonograms, vacuum delivery, or abortions.

• Imposes record-keeping requirements for seven years, mandates informed consent documents for clients, requires filing notices of intent to home deliver, and establishes violations as Class A misdemeanors.